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La Vida Brinca
La vida brinca--life jumps--and yet we strive to capture its passing moments by creating images. One of...
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La vida brinca--life jumps--and yet we strive to capture its passing moments by creating images. One of the simplest yet most evocative techniques for image-making is pinhole photography. Using a tiny aperture without a lens to shine light on a piece of film, pinhole cameras accumulate light until an image forms. Bill Wittliff calls the cameras he makes tragaluces, "light swallowers." By controlling only the size of the aperture, the distance to the film, and the length of the exposure, he makes images that forsake the documentary realism of traditional photography to disclose instead the presence of the mystical in the everyday world.
The tragaluz photographs in La Vida Brinca record iconic images of Hispanic life. Wittliff photographed fiestas, religious observances, street scenes, people's faces, and enduring rural landscapes. But with the soft focus and surprise elements that typify his tragaluz photographs, these images become dreamlike--scenes from a world where, as Stephen Harrigan says, "reassuring touchstones are likely to dissolve, and where the unseen is always startlingly on view." The accompanying essays by Harrigan and Elizabeth Ferrer discuss the history and techniques of pinhole photography, as well as Bill Wittliff's artistic choice to work in this medium. As a work of art, La Vida Brinca reveals that pinhole photography is an ideal vehicle for finding profound meaning in the commonplace, for seeing beyond what the eye can see.
Author: Bill Wittliff
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 03/01/2006
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 4.62lbs
Size: 14.18h x 11.96w x 1.25d
ISBN: 9780292713208
About the Author
BILL WITTLIFF, of Austin, is a distinguished photographer and writer whose photographs have been published in the book Vaquero: Genesis of the Texas Cowboy and exhibited in the United States and abroad. As a screenwriter and producer, his credits include
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