
Using
blueprint paper as an artisitic medium seems ripe for experimentation. You can put the paper in a camera, shut it up in a box with an old lense, even (perhaps) hang a full sheet on the wall to capture the image from a room-sized
camera obscura (pin-hole camera). I first saw this in the new book
Makers, and visited their website
blueprintphotography.com. I remembered a friend's love of
photography and her use of pin-hole cameras. It's a powerful optical learning experience to see a scene projected on a wall upside down with no real "equipment". The tragedy was that you can't keep that image because of it's large size. I want to experiment with this capture technique and camera obscuras. It would be awesome to set up in the bright sun of Black Rock Village at
Burning Man, turning out blueprint snapshots of artists and friends.
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