7.02.2009

SUSAN BURNSTINE: Homemade Cameras

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On The Crest © Susan Burnstine/All rights reserved

I was playing with a friend’s son and his vintage science kit and I saw this really interesting plastic magnifying glass. I looked through it and thought wow this is interesting. I knew I could make a lens out of it, so I stole it.

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SUSAN BURNSTINE was nominated for the 2009 Santa Fe Prize for Photography and winner of B&W Magazine’s 2008 Portfolio Spotlight Award. The images in her current series On Waking Dreams and Instinct are shot on film with homemade medium format cameras and homemade lenses that have cost less than $40 in parts. These cameras are primarily made out of plastic, rubber, molded plastic, a few vintage camera parts and random household objects including string, photo tape, garbage bags, Velcro, parts of toys and children’s science kits along with various materials she happens upon in hobby shops and hardware stores. Susan was one of 100 photographers invited to participate in Review Santa Fe 2009. You can read more about Burnstines work in one of the many articles here. PDN Interview
Susan Burnstine website

2 comments:

P.Gaye Tapp at Little Augury said...

in the age of digital-it would appear that less is more. la

Anonymous said...

De nuevo una prueba evidente de que el equipo fotográfico es mucho menos importante que el fotógrafo.
Cada vez que veo algo así me alegro enormemente.

Fantásticas fotos.