To make a long story short, I’ve been playing around with some ideas for new work lately. (more explanation will be coming later) This is a photo taken with a 1930 Brownie camera. Yes, on film! With an 80-year-old camera! The Brownie was the point and shoot of the early part of the 20th century and revolutionized the photography world of the day, much like the DSLR and the iPhone is doing today.
So I have gotten my fingers in developer and fixer for the first time since probably sometime in 1995 while working at the Greeley Tribune. And yes it does look like an Instagram filter, but the process is done with tradition film and some low-tech non-photoshop techniques. This photo involved the negative, some sandpaper and packaging material. I’ll leave it at that.
Here is the first image, I’m kind of excited about the direction this is heading. I was was going to wait till I had more images to roll this out. But I just couldn’t wait. There will be more to come….
Here is the camera, I have to say it does look a little silly to have a 1930 Brownie box camera on a 1000-dollar carbon fiber Gitzo tripod. (In 1930 this Brownie cost $4) Maybe I need to find an antique tripod for this project? The above photo was taken at the Kittson County Historical Museum.
For more on why I’m using the Kodak Brownie, here is a post from a few years ago.
