Author or Editor: Peter Ward
Publisher: Focal Press
Published: 2003
Pages: 264
Size: 9.07MB
In the last years of the nineteenth century, moving pictures were viewed in penny arcades on Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope. This peepshow allowed the solo viewer to crank a handle, peer into a darkened box and watch in fascination the dim flickering silent representations of movement. This was quickly supplanted by projected images, but the mystery of a miniature world continued to have a strong attraction. After 45 years as a cameraman, I am still intrigued by a similar magic whenever I look through a viewfinder. There is a concentration of the field of view into a small intense, two-dimensional image that is quite unlike normal perception.
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