We call sometimes a making progress with
long strides and high speed "with a giant's leap". It is well
known, in the world of the imagery, too, that the techniques of recording
images have marked a giant's leap since the birth of photography in 1839.
If the steps made forward to the digital
camera were giant's leaps, those of the pinhole camera would be with "Dwarf's
Steps". There is few progress since the years before the birth of
Christ when we could not but record images by tracing by hand even if we
observed an exterior image upside down in a darkened room. The technique
little progressed at a snail's pace of pinhole camera. And the light slowly
taken in bit by bit from the small aperture. It is a slow and low technique.
Gulliver, synonymous of a giant, makes an
appearance as a dwarf, too, in Gulliver's Travels of Jonathan Swift. The
tiny Gulliver may be small enough to enter himself into a pinhole camera
and take pictures. The world peeped through a tiny hole of a third of a
millimeter, corresponding size to his physique. No need to hurry. It is
not so bad to look at an undersized world with dwarf's steps.
For the works in the show I covered the two
miniature parks : "France Miniature" in St. Quintin-en-Yvelines
(suburbs of Paris) in 1995 and "Tobu World Square" in Kinugawa
Onsen, Japan in 2002.
Mieko
TADOKORO
Dwarf's Steps
from the two miniature parks |
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| May 7 to 13, 2003 |
| Kodak Photo Salon |
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