VRC Exhibition | Afterimage: Black and White Visions

Students in Judy Birdsong’s fall 2011 Vertical Studio photographed the images displayed in the Visual Resources Collection’s (VRC) spring-summer 2012 exhibit. Students designed and constructed their own pinhole cameras, and using either film negatives or silver-gelatin print paper, took photographs that they developed and printed in the School of Architecture Darkroom, a facility managed by the VRC.

 

Birdsong notes that “The mechanism by which a pinhole camera operates is so rudimentary that its construction lends itself easily to modification and invention, as evidenced by the wide range of examples also included in this exhibit...Underscoring recurring themes of time and memory represented here, the imprecise nature of the pinhole can also lend a hazy quality to the photographs sympathetic to the elusive and incomplete images in our mind’s eye; and reinforces again the inevitable bond between medium and message.”