Virna Haffer, Swirl, c. 1940

Self portrait - My world of ME

Circa 1900 Dreaming of Angels

August Strindberg, Celestograph, 1894

‘Strindberg distrusted camera lenses, since he considered them to give a distorted representation of reality. Over the years he built several simple lens-less cameras made from cigar boxes or similar containers with a cardboard front in which he had used a needle to prick a minute hole. But the celestographs were produced by an even more direct method using neither lens nor camera. The experiments involved quite simply placing his photographic plates on a window sill or perhaps directly on the ground (sometimes, he tells us, already lying in the developing bath) and letting them be exposed to the starry sky.’

Max Ernst

Birth of a Galaxy

1969

Bear in Space 1970

Dichotomy by odin’s_raven on Flickr.

Photographer Rus Anson