With Polaroid’s instant film to peace out permanently in 2009, we’re loving David Friedman’s attempt to preserve the whole shebang with this digital Polaroid picture frame concept.
From the Coroflot portfolio of : Sung Woo Park (Seoul, South Korea)
Featured project : Eazzzy
Sung Woo Park’s Eazzzy digicam concept is simply a quick, convenient, and well, easy way to snap and download photos. The data transfer process is relieved of wires and multiple device connections and the viewfinder is in the eye of the beholder.
Some people make things as commentary. Some people photograph things as commentary. Wayne Martin Belger does both, at the same time. For several years now, Belger has been building concept-specific pinhole cameras, assembled from materials particular to the subject matter for which they are intended. This can include scraps of ancient holy texts (the Sons of Abraham camera, above, which also includes a fragment of the WTC), HIV-infected blood, antlers, ivory, or human skulls, depending on what’s going to be photographed.
What makes these cameras different from most of the other design-as-commentary we’ve come across in the past few years is that they work, and the unorthodox materials incorporated into their construction affect their functioning in deeply intentional ways. The Untouchable camera, for example, uses the encapsulated blood as a red filter, altering the photographs of HIV-sufferers in a very specific way. The results of their working are showcased in nearly as prominent a way as the objects themselves. Each camera on Belger’s website is depicted next to a gallery of photographs taken with them, as haunting in their own way as the cameras are.
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