Books Available from the Pinhole Resource

Pinhole Photography: Rediscovering a Historic Technique

by Eric Renner

Published by Focal Press, 176 pages, 8-1/2"x11".

This book includes more than 170 photographs and illustrations, in both color and black and white. A comprehensive, how-to guide to pinhole photography, Pinhole Photography: Rediscovering a Historic Technique is both an entertaining illustrated history and practical handbook. Includes chapters on the history of pinhole in both art and science, pinhole's renaissance from the 1960s into the 1990s, instructions on making both pinhole cameras and images, a source guide to suppliers, optimal pinhole diamater chart and much more!

Price: $32.95 postpaid ($39.95, foreign, surface rate)

A Non-Silver Manual

Cyanotype, Brownprint, Palladium, and Gum Bichromate with
instructions for making light-resists including pinhole photography

(Second Edition, Third Revision)
by Sarah Van Keuren

Self-published, 1993, 45 pages text, 8-1/2"x11", spiral bound.

Based on 13 years of practicing and teaching non-silver processes, this manual simplifies previously daunting procedures and stresses underlying principles. Van Keuren believes that anything which blocks varying amounts of light can serve a a "negative." This is an in-depth manual and a "must" for anyone wanting to do non-silver processes. It includes a section on pinhole photography.

Price: $22.00 postpaid ($25.00 foreign postpaid).

Bibliography on Pinhole Photography from 1850 to Present.

This bibliography, compiled by Stanley R. Page, lists 450 articles on the pinhole in English (100 articles pre-1900) and shows the wide variety of pinhole uses photographically during the last 135 years. Some of the uses are: a pinhole enlarger, a pinhole solar recorder, pinhole in flame studies in car engines, pinhole astronomy, pinhole in medicine (stomach cameras, dental cameras, nuclear cameras), pinhole in microcircuitry, pinhole in space docking procedures, pinhole in pictorial photography, pinhole in fusion energy studies, pinhole in the classroom, pinhole in closed circuit television, pinhole in X-ray and gamma ray studies, pinhole in stereoscopic studies, and many more. All of the old atrticles are archived at Pinhole Resource.

Price: $15.00

Bibliography on Pinhole Optics in Science and Art from 5th Century BC to 1850 AD.

This bibliography, compiled by Eric Renner, lists many early artists and scientists who used the pinhole. It has quotes and illustrations of old lensless camera obscura information, artist's uses of the pinhole in one point perspecitve. (Filippo Brunelleschi, Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Durer, etc.) and peep show boxes (Leon Battista Alberti, Thomas Gainsborough, etc.) and scientists' uses of the pinhole as a point source of light (Newton's color studies, Thomas Young's interference studies, August Fresnel's wave theory studies, H. von Helmholtz's eye studies, Theodoric's rainbow studies, Alhazen's eclipse studies, Johannes Kepler's astronomy studies, and many more). This bibliography shows the beautiful history of the pinhole.

Price $15.00

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