Huge Format

[ShannonG]

Has anyone else been watching this project? The camera is on display in Chicago tell the end of October.How does one obtain such large film ??
https://www.facebook.com/ButterfliesandBuffaloTalesOfAmericanCulture?ref=hl

[Jac@stafford.net]

I suspect the photo is a digital composite.
He's that way, methinks. (http://www.manarchy.com/)

But anyway, more here: http://butterfliesandbuffalo.com/dennis-manarchy/

[Kirk Gittings]

I suspect the photo is a digital composite.
He's that way, methinks.

Really? How could you tell? :)

[sanking]

I suspect the photo is a digital composite.
He's that way, methinks. (http://www.manarchy.com/)

But anyway, more here: http://butterfliesandbuffalo.com/dennis-manarchy/


If that is true the guy sure went to a lot of trouble to pull the wool over our eyes. Just mounting a fake camera that size on a trailer would take a fair amount of work!

Sandy

[Drew Wiley]

His photographic style doesn't particularly appeal to me, and there are already several people out there turning vans or trucks into camera obscuras; but I gotta commend the effort of building an actual vintage-looking mega-camera. Even if it's a gimmick, it sure can't do any harm to the reputation of LF film photography.
Now let's see someone build a ballhead for this thing!

[ShannonG]

Here is a article,check out the size of that neg..
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/butterflies-buffalo-tales-of-american-culture

[ShannonG]

I agree im not a big fan of his style either,but i do like the vintage look of the camera.

[Drew Wiley]

There was actually a camera this big used on the real frontier, ca 1880's, but I can't remember if the technique was tintype or whatever. Each shot required about a week of carpentry to build the support scaffolding, and a crew of assistants to apply the emulsion etc. The shots would be of an entire group of Indians, etc. Probably none of the negs have survived, but with some sleuthing, one can locate remaining photos of the camera setup itself. The record size for any photograph
was recently made by turning the inside of the Moffett Field blimp hanger into a camera obscura, and applying Liquid Light, then dev and fixer with huge industrial
paint rollers (a project involving about twenty students). ... the result was a big uneven canvas mural of some very boring aircraft runways and ugly commercial
warehousing off in the distance. But what the heck. But in the case being specifically discussed on the thread, the object of art, or conversation piece itself,
might well be the camera. I don't see anything particular compelling about yet another Avedon-style white-sheet point-blank tour of the West, just biggggger.

[Kirk Gittings]

This guy is very marketing savy. This project is like a huge flashing billboard in the media pointing directly at him. Bigggggger gets big press even if it is superfluous really to the imagery. Gotta admire his business sense.

But does the camera even exist yet in its portable version? Everything I have seen outside of his studio is CG of some sort and the portraits he shows seem to be studio shots.

[Dan Fromm]

I suspect the photo is a digital composite.
He's that way, methinks. (http://www.manarchy.com/)

But anyway, more here: http://butterfliesandbuffalo.com/dennis-manarchy/

It is the same artist's rendering ever since he started trying to raise money via Kickstart. Or is it Kickstarter?

Vaporware, unreal until proven otherwise.

[Drew Wiley]

The only hard claim on his website is that the camera exists and is currently itself on display. There's no indication it has ever actually been used - that part of the
story is all a fishing expedition for the necessary funds. ... but those won't arrive unless he does have props as a teaser.

[Drew Bedo]

There was a thread on this before . . .My understanding was that he had built a camera-room into his studio that was the size of the camera in the picture. My recollection is that he was trying to raise money (kick-start?) to first build the trailer camera and then fund a series of portrates.

"
Vaporware" . . .I like that!

[Jim C.]

The camera is on display if I read it correctly in Chicago at Two North Riverside Plaza till Oct 31, any one near there ?

If that neg is for real as seen in the video, I want to know two things -
Who's supplying him the film, and how does he scan it ?
:confused:

I also want to see that giant Unicum shutter work !

[Taija71A]

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Hmmmm...


Yes, all that this is of course... Is another attempt to 'raise funds' after last years miserably 'failed' ( "Vanishing Cultures, by Dennis M*n*rchy") Kickst*rter campaign...

Last year (Feb 1, 2012 - Apr 1, 2012) they were looking for $50,000 to build the camera and now this year... They are 'suddenly' looking to raise $235,000... And the camera is now already built?


What????
Ever Wonder WHY???

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Enough said!

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[ShannonG]

Its not a new idea,that's for sure.. Wondering if tin types were shot on this.
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