or "learn to walk images by being carried around."
The days when men peep through the country subjected to the common people for little money through the lenses of their boxes to provide insights into the world beyond their poor pictures, limited habitat are long gone.
The artist Volker Gerling, however, traveled today to walk through the land to the people "side of the road and over the garden fence," to "village fairs and markets," as well as in pubs its images on a vendor's tray with the label "Visit my traveling exhibition" to present. From the "symbolic outlet" that the "visitors to the exhibition in throw a jar of honey can be screwed on, he earns his living during the long wanderings through Germany.
His works seem at first glance not very spectacular: Volker Gerling photographed faces. He exposed a whole 36 small film camera with a motor - 12 seconds to tell a lot about the so-amazing person portrayed by Gerling presents the developed images of a film as fascinating flick.
on his interesting website www.daumenkinographie.de is more about the concept of "Daumenkinographie" to learn - and dates of its most entertaining lectures.
The operation of the flip corresponds to the way of the Mutoskops a peep to see through to before the advent of film through a lens "living pictures" were. By turning the handle was attached to a roller series of images in motion. At the height of the lens was a stop that lasted the picture for a moment. In the succession of rapid succession, paused briefly images gave the impression of a running film.
Mutoskope were showmen until the mid-20th Century demonstrated - often with "spicy" content. ..
