Roger, I know what a Holga is, thanks to web forums and that high view
point photographic portrait, thanks to having to take my knee high motor
cycles boots and jacket off in mid winter and lie on my back on photo
backing paper (very expensive and delicate paper) looking up at a
photographer on top of a step ladder with a Mamiya RZ67 in her hands
focusing on my laid out cold face and body in an unheated studio and all
this because the editor of a color magazine asked for it! And not one
but two rolls of film over three hours. (This would be the early 90s
which more or less interacts with digital views.)
I think what you are referring to is large format rather then wide-body.
Generally sheet film is available in five by four inch sheets, as well
as larger sizes such as five by seven and ten by eight inch sized sheets
of film. What, after several years away from it, I find most interesting
is that a 4x5 inch monorail camera can have a film plane which is not
parallel to the lens plane and so this allows perspective to be
distorted or manipulated in various ways that can appear "not natural".
here is one article on haptic space from psychological research:
www.mbfys.ru.nl/~stan/HermensP&P_2006.pdf
I really do need to make some more comments also to link my humorous
responses to Judy together with this but have run out of energy, for
now. I also need to write this out for myself, as well, so I can get a
better hold on how haptic space works, but generally haptic space is
intensive rather then extensive as it is with Kant. There are times when
I think if I were to teach this I would take the students through a
reading of Kant, rather the the more twisted route I followed. This ties
in with black and white traditional photography also in ways I had not
expected. I too was very surprised at how popular traditional monochrome
silver photography and prints are.
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 11:04 +0100, Roger Day wrote:
> OK, coffee break.
>
> I'd be very interested in seeing some of your photos.
>
> I'm jealous of your wide-body, wet processing skills. Most art schools
> today do not have a colour lab; it's being written uot of the
> syllabus. Wet plate photography is becoming very fashionable these
> days - article in the NYT about a series of pictures of modern cowboys
> done using some of these old processes.
>
> I'm mostly digital these days - phone cameras (which have started a
> particular self-portrait fashion, mostly involving pointing at the
> mirror into which you look), an Olympus C60, a Canon D30 (which I
> regret getting because it's engineering is all *wrong*), plus a Holga,
> a remake of 60's all-plastic camera.
>
> That high-angle view so beloved of web-photography is also influencing
> portrait painters in art schools today.
>
> Anyone interested in doing a long-distance version of the
> camera-version of the Exquisite Corpse? I'm going to make a
> cardboard-camera which will be cheap enough for this. I take photos,
> send camera to other person, they rewind the film and then they take
> photos. And so on.
>
> Also, haptic space; any references I can read? I'm very interested in
> exploring this space, becoming a hapticnaut as it were.
>
> best
>
> Roger
>
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Christopher C Jones
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Hello, I'm back. The psychosis that forced me to leave, was it two years
> > ago now, ended up being a side effect of Digesics, a pain medication and
> > was easily resolved by ceasing to take the medication. However, other
> > traumatic life events have prevented me from rejoining the list until
> > now.
> >
> > So, I have written two lines of verse already, have started revising the
> > novel and built a photographic darkroom as well as getting my hands on a
> > 4x5 monorail camera with three lenses (a Calumet 45N with a Schneider
> > 90mm Super Angulon, Schneider 150mm Xenar and a Caltar Ilex 215mm.) I
> > also have acquired two rather nice enlargers, a Fujimoto45M-D and Meopta
> > Opemus 4. Unfortunately, I dropped my Mamiya C33 body while loading film
> > in my studio and aside from the hole the falling camera made in the
> > concrete floor also broke the left focusing knob off so had to replace
> > it with a more recent C330f body.
> >
> > It has come to my attention that I cannot write unless also doing some
> > sort of photography. Being beyond always learning new software for
> > multimedia I went back to what I first learnt at art college some
> > decades ago. I am working with what psychologists call haptic space
> > which according to some research is how we learn optical vision. This
> > art of haptic space also goes back to my first year at art school, so is
> > not really anything that new.
> >
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