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A Homemade Multipoint Pinhole Camera
Made from 32,000 Drinking Straws
Using 32,000 black drinking
straws, collaborators Michael
(Mick) Farrell and Cliff Haynes
created the Straw Camera, a
homemade camera they began
experimenting with in 2007.
Despite the connection one might
draw to a pinhole camera, the
Straw Camera actually functions
quite differently, producing a
multipoint perspective from an
array rather than a single point
perspective.
“In a world beset by selfies with
their immediate gratification,
and HD television in all its glory
feeding our visual appetite, a Straw
Camera image of an individual,
with its engineering projection and
disappearance of the subject into
the near fog of visual capture, gives
the viewer a glimpse of just how
transitory perception is,” said Cliff
about the camera.
The direct analogue process
records the light collected from
each straw onto a piece of paper
secured to the back of the camera.
The camera gives a direct 1:1
view of the subject that is placed
before it, however it translates
the image to one that mirrors that
of pointillist painting, breaking
the subject into thousands of little
dots.