Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography: Selections from th...
Renner, Eric / Nancy, Spencer / Spencer, Nancy
The art of capturing an image through an improvised pinhole device traces back to ancient China and Greece through the Renaissance and reaching its height of popularity in the 1880s. The era of the modern sharp-focus lens camera marked the end of pinhole photography as a major art form. Three decades ago Eric Renner resuscitated the form with his publication Pinhole Journal that ushered in a resurgence of interest by artists seeking an alterna...