Pinhole photographer martha casanave photography
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The next generation included Morley Baer, Wynn Bullock, Al Weber, Richard Garrod and Henry Gilpin. I realized that image, and that one started a flow of more. He was feeling stuck, creatively. I use sandbags, made on the spot, to stabilize the camera. We don’t use viewfinder, batteries, or shutter. And all that silver nitrate she dripped in the dining room!
Something must have been simmering in my unconscious, because I woke up the morning of our appointment with an image of a starfish in my mind. No “shooting” for pinhole photographers! (Friend, more like.) When I heard the call of crows, I turned to look, as I do to this day, hearing something familiar.
When I was a teenager, I dressed in black and cawed at my friends.
What is [he] looking for in a faraway country? One of the properties of this phenomenon is its nearly infinite depth of field (from the camera’s focal-length distance to infinity). What did he abandon in his homeland?” Further on, the poem says: “And he, rebellious, seeks out storms as if in storms there is peace.”
I photographed only on cloudy, windy and stormy days.
One project involved narrative style scenarios and nudes in my natural-light studio. No lens, no shutter, no viewfinder. Scientific explanations don’t help a bit — they only make it seem more magical.
So I began photographing what I jokingly refer to either as “the unnatural scene,” or “the supernatural scene.”
I feel pretty ridiculous as I teeter on the rocks, slipping, sliding, and wildly waving my arms, backpack swaying and tilting me off balance. For that I adapted my 4x5 camera with a crude aluminum foil pinhole in a lensboard.
No, we uncover the aperture and allow the light to accumulate. She also holds private workshops in Monterey. I was, and am, privileged to count Ansel, Brett, Morley and others of the present generation as my friends; I have photographed nearly all of them (indoors). And the power that passion imbued in her imperfect prints kept them alive through the ages.
Every negative seems to have its share of anomalies.