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new construction for a new year
363.365 ~ My Year TtV ~ December 29, 2009: Decided to re-work my TtV rig for the new year. The basic structure and cameras are the same, but the materials are different.
After meticulous research, I discovered an obscure document in the Library of Congress database detailing a collaborative venture in which industrial designers Raymond Loewy, Norman Bel Geddes, and Henry Dreyfuss combined their talents at the height of their careers to design the world's first "Viewfinder Phot-o-matic" apparatus. Publicity of the day heralded that this secretive project would spark an impending revolution in the art of photography.
Sadly, however, before the completed designs ever made it to a fabrication stage, funding ran dry and the project quietly went idle. And so the world would have to wait for over half a century before "Viewfinder Phot-o-matic Re-imaging" (or "TtV" which it is commonly referred to today) would ever reach an audience.
The document contained detailed patents and blueprints for their Phot-o-matic device, and I followed the specifications precisely in constructing this exact replica of their wonderful streamline-moderne Viewfinder Phot-o-matic TtV machine. ;)
(I wanted a cleaner appearance than my old duct-tape-covered TtV contraption had, and I also wanted as much of the base camera to be visible as possible --- since my previous version had it covered up entirely. So hopefully now those who are un-indoctrinated in TtV might understand WTF this is when they look at it.) :)
~~ photographed through the viewfinder of a Polaroid Automatic 230 Land Camera
new construction for a new year
363.365 ~ My Year TtV ~ December 29, 2009: Decided to re-work my TtV rig for the new year. The basic structure and cameras are the same, but the materials are different.
After meticulous research, I discovered an obscure document in the Library of Congress database detailing a collaborative venture in which industrial designers Raymond Loewy, Norman Bel Geddes, and Henry Dreyfuss combined their talents at the height of their careers to design the world's first "Viewfinder Phot-o-matic" apparatus. Publicity of the day heralded that this secretive project would spark an impending revolution in the art of photography.
Sadly, however, before the completed designs ever made it to a fabrication stage, funding ran dry and the project quietly went idle. And so the world would have to wait for over half a century before "Viewfinder Phot-o-matic Re-imaging" (or "TtV" which it is commonly referred to today) would ever reach an audience.
The document contained detailed patents and blueprints for their Phot-o-matic device, and I followed the specifications precisely in constructing this exact replica of their wonderful streamline-moderne Viewfinder Phot-o-matic TtV machine. ;)
(I wanted a cleaner appearance than my old duct-tape-covered TtV contraption had, and I also wanted as much of the base camera to be visible as possible --- since my previous version had it covered up entirely. So hopefully now those who are un-indoctrinated in TtV might understand WTF this is when they look at it.) :)
~~ photographed through the viewfinder of a Polaroid Automatic 230 Land Camera