18. Arthur Fellig : Portable Photo Lab camera
Atelier Ying Nyc, a study for Weegee's Portable Lab
moving further in the direction Weegee had started, that of his ingenious mobile photo lab in the trunk of his car, I propose this smaller custom digital camera designed to be reminiscent of Weegee's actual red 1938 Chevy coupe. In my research I was impressed by the height of the car, the length of its rear trunk, and the heft of the car, which must have been attractive indeed considering the clothes style and the modernistic taste of skyscrapers that were just built in that era. The camera body has built-in compartments of highly polished wood veneer, a black plastic shell, chrome and red radiator covers in an art deco stying and an expensive extra large, bright viewfinder with a 'prescient eye' triangle icon. Since every photographer spends most of his time looking at the back of his camera, so this design has two features which are sure to delight the eye of its main user: a back cover styled after the actual glove compartment from the Chevy Coupe, and behind that cover which lifts open like the trunk of car, are built-in compartments of highly polished wood veneer doors which house the pieces of equipment Weegee uses. They are numbered as follows:
1. a reporter's notebook kit with the all-important press card
and a tiny Polaroid printer with USB connection to the digital camera port.
2. a number of long cigars
3. Weegee's famous stamp and inkpad
4. an ultra tiny red USB radio
5. External flashgun attachment with a remote for the digital camera stored inside the grip.
6. Modern digital camera recessed inside the back dashboard. The settings for the digital camera will have to be preset.
This camera design allows Weegee to carry on many of his former work habits as if nothing much had changed at all. Weegee was highly technocratic for his time in the field of photography. He had expertise and the intellectual curiosity to move forward into experimental work in his later life. With this handheld digital camera-lab, he can develop photographs, hand out cigars to contacts, stamp his prints, monitor the police and ambulance radios, keep notes on site information, and be still be reminded of his red coupe, a car that in some ways symbolized the departure from his apprentice days learning tintype to his total independence as an artist.
Please look at my Weegee set below. I created it for you Weegee enthusiasts! www.flickr.com/photos/64011301@N08/sets/72157632995557584/
Design, text and drawing are copyright 2013 by David Lo.
18. Arthur Fellig : Portable Photo Lab camera
Atelier Ying Nyc, a study for Weegee's Portable Lab
moving further in the direction Weegee had started, that of his ingenious mobile photo lab in the trunk of his car, I propose this smaller custom digital camera designed to be reminiscent of Weegee's actual red 1938 Chevy coupe. In my research I was impressed by the height of the car, the length of its rear trunk, and the heft of the car, which must have been attractive indeed considering the clothes style and the modernistic taste of skyscrapers that were just built in that era. The camera body has built-in compartments of highly polished wood veneer, a black plastic shell, chrome and red radiator covers in an art deco stying and an expensive extra large, bright viewfinder with a 'prescient eye' triangle icon. Since every photographer spends most of his time looking at the back of his camera, so this design has two features which are sure to delight the eye of its main user: a back cover styled after the actual glove compartment from the Chevy Coupe, and behind that cover which lifts open like the trunk of car, are built-in compartments of highly polished wood veneer doors which house the pieces of equipment Weegee uses. They are numbered as follows:
1. a reporter's notebook kit with the all-important press card
and a tiny Polaroid printer with USB connection to the digital camera port.
2. a number of long cigars
3. Weegee's famous stamp and inkpad
4. an ultra tiny red USB radio
5. External flashgun attachment with a remote for the digital camera stored inside the grip.
6. Modern digital camera recessed inside the back dashboard. The settings for the digital camera will have to be preset.
This camera design allows Weegee to carry on many of his former work habits as if nothing much had changed at all. Weegee was highly technocratic for his time in the field of photography. He had expertise and the intellectual curiosity to move forward into experimental work in his later life. With this handheld digital camera-lab, he can develop photographs, hand out cigars to contacts, stamp his prints, monitor the police and ambulance radios, keep notes on site information, and be still be reminded of his red coupe, a car that in some ways symbolized the departure from his apprentice days learning tintype to his total independence as an artist.
Please look at my Weegee set below. I created it for you Weegee enthusiasts! www.flickr.com/photos/64011301@N08/sets/72157632995557584/
Design, text and drawing are copyright 2013 by David Lo.