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Eric Renner
Ticul Center Plaza, 1969

 

A pinhole camera can be as simple and inexpensive as a cardboard box with a pinhole in a thin sheet of metal. This image was made in a large six-sided box with a pinhole in each side and a long sheet of film wrapped around a cylinder inside. Six 60-degree images of the scene overlap and double expose into each other in proportion to the intensity of the light reaching the film.