toy camera photos
The Toy Camera show featuring photos by Marianne Bevil, Bob Delevante, and Rebekah Pope opens at the Parthenon tonight.
The City Paper says about it:
“It’s not the camera that takes the image, it’s the photographer and how they use their tools,†said Rebekah Pope, who earns her living snapping portraits of children.
Illustrating this point is the inspiration behind a new photography exhibit opening Saturday at the Parthenon. The show, The Toy Camera: Three Views, displays the pictures of three local photographers (including Pope) taken with a Holga, a $20, cheaply-made plastic camera manufactured in Hong Kong for mass market use.
The exhibit’s aim is to prove that gorgeous images are made by people, not products, and that in an era of self-working, high-end digital photography and point-and-shoot cameras, sometimes the worst equipment can yield the best results.
There is a reception from 6pm-8pm, a great chance to see the place for free and be one of the first to check out the photographs. Plus The Elliot Daingerfield show comes down tomorrow, so this is an opportunity to see that too.