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11/20/2010 04:42:37 PM · #1 |
Hey all, I'm currently working on some ideas for my current college assignment, the brief is 'Images in Dreams' and it's based around the concept of surrealism. I've been researching some different experimental techniques over the last week or so, and when I came across Alvin Langdon Coburn again I instantly remembered how intriqued I was by his Vortographs. I know the technique is achieved with the placement of three mirrors in a triangular formation, but I'm looking for a slightly more in-depth tutorial. I've Googled it, but to no avail!
It would be great if anyone that's tried it could post some tips and examples of their work. Unfortunately, because I'm a new member I'm restricted from posting images or links, but if you go to Google images and type 'Ezra Pound Vortograph' you'll see an example of the image I am looking to create.
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11/20/2010 04:45:36 PM · #2 |
Here's the link for people
Ezra Pound Vortograph
Message edited by author 2010-11-20 16:45:55. |
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11/20/2010 04:48:33 PM · #3 |
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11/20/2010 05:59:25 PM · #4 |
Not being familiar with what you were asking, I was curious and looked into things a bit.
Really vague explanation-
"Vortograph
The technique of photographing devised by Alvin Langdon Coburn around 1915. Abstract images were created by placing three mirrors together (facing one another) and photographing through the triangular prism created. Ezra Pound, a member of the Vorticism group of English painters, suggested the name vortoscope for the instrument and vortograph for the image."
Some discussion of Pound as a whole, with references to the scope consisting of a triangular prism of mirrors. (this one is SUPER long, so ctrl+f mirrors or vortoscope to find the relevant section)
//eprints.ucl.ac.uk/17429/1/17429.pdf
"Vortographs
Coburn invented the Vortoscope late in 1916 by binding together three of Ezra Pound’s shaving mirrors and rigging them below a kind of glass light table. The mirrors acted as a prism splitting the image formed by the lens into segments which Coburn then used to produce his vortographs."
//www.reading.ac.uk/web/FILES/special-collections/featurecoburn.pdf
Another short discussion says "built my own vortoscope based on how a simple kaleidoscope is made."
person made their own vortoscope
"He subsequently photographed Ezra Pound and Jacob Epstein at their homes, Wyndham Lewis and Edward Wadsworth in their studios, and acquired a number of Wadsworth's Vorticist woodcut prints. Coburn later stated that he devised the Vortoscope—a kaleidoscopic instrument composed of three mirrors fastened together in the form of a triangle—to emulate Vorticist abstraction. His camera lens was projected into this device, and Coburn photographed pieces of wood and crystal on a glass table to create his non-objective Vortographs."
//www.nasher.duke.edu/vorticists/about.php
Further reference to kaleidoscope-
"As it turned out, Coburn did not employ a "prism" but a kaleidoscope type device, made
by taping together a triangular tube of mirrors. The poet Ezra Pound dubbed the device
a vortoscope and the results vortographs. Most of his vortographs dipicted objects, such
as pieces of glass, although Coburn did make a few portraits with the vortoscope,
includingone of Ezra Pound. (3)"
//www.billjayonphotography.com/CubistPhotography.pdf
There is tons of stuff online about how to build your own kaleidoscope, so google that.
Interesting stuff. I'd be curious to see how things turn out if you pursue it. |
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11/20/2010 06:03:41 PM · #5 |
You might be able to modify a kaleidoscope to get similar results. Just a thought.
Instructions for making kaleidoscopes are easy to find on the web. With a little ingenuity you could make one that attaches to the end of your lens.
Uhhh... like  spiritualspatula already said.
Message edited by author 2010-11-20 18:10:36.
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