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136 Mini Film Cameras in the Smithsonian Institution History of Photography Collection With
Old Style Photoshop Filter is a set 17 photographs I took of the Smithsonian’s collection of minicameras
during my Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. Though once revolutionary state-of-the-
art tools for their small scale, in their current state these cameras are inanimate and obsolete,
carefully tagged, boxed, and archived. I added the Photoshop “Old Style” filter to emphasize the
nostalgia these cameras naturally illicit (especially to photographers), and made pigment prints on
matte photo rag paper. I laid them in a vitrine to emphasize their passive state - the matte surface
disappears and the prints almost appear as actual faded cameras entombed within the vitrine. When
juxtaposed with the Mountains, Moving project, this work speaks to an equivalency as well as an
utter contrast with the smart-phone camera. |
