cool!
"Box Camera"? After checking with the Khela's who put this together, the camera is a 5x7 as are all the negatives.
"Developed again" - washed and cleaned, scanned and printed. Would be nice to see fine contact prints from someone like Paula Chamlee or another excellent contact printing specialist. Even better would be a book with Lodima Press high standards with the 600 line screen separations.
After checking, the film is Kodak Super XX.
Last edited by Willie; 28-Apr-2020 at 18:16. Reason: More information
” Never attribute to inspiration that which can be adequately explained by delusion”.
Interesting sort of HD renderings of 50s images.
It is a great road, to be sure. East or west, it is the best...
"Landscapes exist in the material world yet soar in the realms of the spirit..." Tsung Ping, 5th Century China
Richard, thanks for posting, I really enjoyed the article and photographs.
Roger
Thanks Richard
Terrific story and photographs.
"The images use something called one-point perspective: the composition that makes faraway objects appear to recede."
WTH is that?? Sounds like regular old perspective to me...
But I never went to art school, so don't know this new-fangled way of speakin'! (or is it "old-fangled"?)
These are the kinds of photos I would love to be taking. Today I was back out into the very small towns with my 4x5. Using the photos you linked I took one "environmental portrait" but the rest were of buildings etc. I find it easy to talk to people and mix well with small town and rural people. We have a lot of the same interests and values. I just don't know if I could walk into a barbershop full of people and take a photos of them though. Maybe. I could do that with my own barber and customers I'm sure. He runs a classic shop. My dream would be to wander around the Great Plains taking photos like the ones you linked. I was thinking the camera was a 5x7 but others are pretty sure it's 8x10?
Kent in SD
In contento ed allegria
Notte e di vogliam passar!
Well, the aspect ratio of the photos looks like 5x7 to me also. They are marked Kodak and appear to have two V-notches fairly close together, which is for Super-XX according to a reference I found. (Panatomic-X used two V-notches also, but they were farther apart.)
I wonder what lens he used--looks really wide and does not quite cover the format.
In the outdoor shot of the photographer and his wife he is holding up a T-shaped gadget in his left hand. Is it a magnesium flash powder holder, or just a prop? I wonder if some of his interiors were lit with flash powder? I thought it was obsolete after WWII.
Those are amazing! I wonder if he did use flash powder for the interiors. Or maybe flash bulbs?
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