david baugh
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Thought you may find this interesting........
Thought you may find this interesting........
Seems to me Joe van Cleave has a series on videos on making an Afghan box camera. There are a couple other videos about the cameras and their users on YouTube as well.
So he does - got it! Thanks, Donald
The designation "Afghan Camera" provokes the idea that those cameras were only to be found in Afghanistan. However they had been widespread.
I took this picture in the early seventies, maybe the same guy in his younger days?
There were quite a lot of them in those days.
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Thanks, I took it with a Rolleiflex 3.5F on Tri-XLove the photo..
I was wondering about the thingy...It makes perfect sense now you've explained it, thanks!the wooden bit that dangles down below the front of the camera is typically flipped up as a copy stand where he wet and stuck the just made negative and rephotograph it all over again inside the camera making the positive print. ...
It wasn't limited to Third World Countries; many examples of this type photography in the USA.
Some were paper negative, some were tintype; lot's of variety.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/fsa.8d26795/
https://www.loc.gov/item/2017761187/
https://www.loc.gov/resource/ggbain.02979/
For dry gelatin, you would not need a towel and a beaker, and a sleeve, as in photo #1. But the holder for re-photographing is missing. Some direct reversal process?but those guys pictured were probably shooting dry gelatin plates and delivering the print later. And it looks like they had standardized, commercially made cameras, too.
And those were clearly well after what we usually think of as the tintype era -- clothing and cars make them look like 1920s to 1930s. There were still tintype portraitists around then, but those guys pictured were probably shooting dry gelatin plates and delivering the print later. And it looks like they had standardized, commercially made cameras, too.
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