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The Camera Automatically: A useful trick is to keep the Camera at the same distance from the child in every sitting. This standardization pays off later, in the darkroom, because it makes it possible to leave the enlarger set at the same height above the easel for all prints. Since the lighting, too, is standardized, all negatives will take about the same printing time and the job in the darkroom can be handled quickly and almost automatically.
The photographs were made by orienting the Lunar Orbiter to point at the desired target and then exposing a portion of 70 mm film. To prevent blurring due to motion of the spacecraft, the Camera automatically moved its film during an exposure according to signals from a device that monitored the height and velocity of the vehicle.
When miniature Camera work by the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson was first shown at the Ju-lien Levy Gallery in New York in 1933, it was called awkardly enough, "antigraphic photography."9 The impression arose that the photographs had been taken almost automatically and that they owed their strange and provocative beauty to chance; they were described as "equivocal, ambivalent, anti-plastic, accidental." |
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