Visual Edge 2002

Photography's Full Circle: 
The Pinhole Perspective

Nancy Spencer and Eric Renner

The images are presented in the order being shown in the exhibition.
The numbers for each print are used as references for the exhibit.
Prices shown are set by the artists

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Nancy Spencer/Eric Renner
Featured Artists
New Mexico



1. Woman as Witch $800



2. Miss America $800



3. White Hand $800



4. Chinese Beauty Puzzle $800



5."Visca Versca" - Popeye $800



6. Women Saved from Themselves $800


from "On Deaf Ears"

Twelve years ago, we began constructing assemblages. many of which dealt with social issues of human rights, religion, sexuality, and stereotypes. On a lighter note, we also made assemblages dealing with Mickey Mouse, Elvis, Marilyn, and our own relationship. Our assemblages have been greatly influenced by passages in The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets by Barbara Walker.

We hung the assemblages on the walls of our house and lived with them daily. We became very attached to them, and in fact when we showed them in galleries, we would put high prices on them, hoping they wouldn't sell. In retrospect, we both feel we knew we weren't finished with them.

In the summer of 2001, we began photographing segments of our assemblages with a pinhole camera, thus creating a second body of work separate from the assemblages. We did not originally construct the assemblages with the intent of photographing them. In making the photographs and concentrating on small details, we realized there was the possibility of an altered context in making two-dimensional images of our three-dimensional assemblages. The pinhole images make use of color shifts due to long exposures (8-10 minutes), vignetting, and altered perspectives enhanced by our choice of placement of the wide-angle pinhole camera, The images in this show were made with a 4" x 5" Leonardo pinhole camera with a focal length of 1 1/2". The pinhole is approximately .087", about the size a sewing needle would make pushed through metal.

This body of work is on-going. We continue to build assemblages; some of them we photograph.

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Eric Renner and Nancy Spencer

Linda Pearson

Martha Casanave

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