178. Camera Sack 2
laboratorio de ying, nyc.
Drinking Sherry at 5pm extends now to the 2nd of my designs for "Sack", the 16th century English name for Sherry.
It is oddly interesting that around the 18th century people carried their own cutlery with them to their host's home, which is something that photographers still do today (they carry their own cameras) although cell phone and device camera functions (and to an extent Polaroid cameras of course) now have also 'antiquated' this practice. So in the future, we should see a Leica M3 on a sideboard in a room specifically as a reminder of a time when people were limited enough to have to carry their own cameras when visiting. But this Sack Camera will be seen then as still being modern as it is both a portable (at least to a Weegee) and a stationary camera for interiors. Read on for the details.
Derived from an antique 18th-century English Knife box that has been modified now to a pinhole camera. It should be noted that these decorative and elegant knife boxes had been modified for many decades into stationery and postal boxes. The camera has a removable dark slide/cartridge specifically recalling the mail slot for the postal box. As the sketch shows, turning the tasseled key opens the lens cover for exposure. This English knife box-cum-portrait pinhole camera is meant to be displayed elegantly on top of a wooden sideboard in an office or dining room as a drinks cabinet, accompanied by a service tray and other accessories. The back half of the knife box holds compartments for bottles of sherry, port, a gasogene and some crystal glasses.
The underside of the lid frames a token antique 18th-century fruit knife, not the type that would be displayed in a knife box but which evolved as a status symbol of the upper classes. Both Sack and fruit were scarce back then.
Design, text and drawing are copyright 2014 by David Lo.
178. Camera Sack 2
laboratorio de ying, nyc.
Drinking Sherry at 5pm extends now to the 2nd of my designs for "Sack", the 16th century English name for Sherry.
It is oddly interesting that around the 18th century people carried their own cutlery with them to their host's home, which is something that photographers still do today (they carry their own cameras) although cell phone and device camera functions (and to an extent Polaroid cameras of course) now have also 'antiquated' this practice. So in the future, we should see a Leica M3 on a sideboard in a room specifically as a reminder of a time when people were limited enough to have to carry their own cameras when visiting. But this Sack Camera will be seen then as still being modern as it is both a portable (at least to a Weegee) and a stationary camera for interiors. Read on for the details.
Derived from an antique 18th-century English Knife box that has been modified now to a pinhole camera. It should be noted that these decorative and elegant knife boxes had been modified for many decades into stationery and postal boxes. The camera has a removable dark slide/cartridge specifically recalling the mail slot for the postal box. As the sketch shows, turning the tasseled key opens the lens cover for exposure. This English knife box-cum-portrait pinhole camera is meant to be displayed elegantly on top of a wooden sideboard in an office or dining room as a drinks cabinet, accompanied by a service tray and other accessories. The back half of the knife box holds compartments for bottles of sherry, port, a gasogene and some crystal glasses.
The underside of the lid frames a token antique 18th-century fruit knife, not the type that would be displayed in a knife box but which evolved as a status symbol of the upper classes. Both Sack and fruit were scarce back then.
Design, text and drawing are copyright 2014 by David Lo.