Camera Gallery Ying is open to the public!

Gallery Ying, Nyc.

The world's only In-camera artist's gallery
The world's smallest traveling gallery

A public gallery space inside of a Polaroid camera!
Btw, You can still take pictures with this camera, the gallery modifications do not hinder the focus of the lens and the image path at all.

This 1st exhibition is 7 miniature color photographs of old bakery cafes in Chinatown of the late 1990's,
which are no longer existent, and the slide transparency is, well, you can see
for yourself when you visit.

Gallery Ying is open by appointment only.
Complimentary cold espresso and a chinese macaroon (to coincide with the show's theme)
will be served to you (this offer is only for appointments outside of Nyc)
I can travel to you anywhere on the globe as it is a mobile gallery.
Admission is free, but you have to pay for my traveling and nominal hotel costs, and I
may take your photograph when you sign in. If you want to make a tax-deductible donation
to the gallery to defray our production costs, it will be well appreciated!

Since 1999, when I experienced the world's first portable art gallery, the Nasubi Gallery in a small bookshop in Tokyo, I had the dream of bringing something like that back to the eastern shores of Chinatown. This is it. The white gallery "look" of conventional soho galleries is now transformed into the white Polaroid Swinger Model 20, and is my 2012 version of the very first mobile in-camera photograph gallery called G.Y.
Conceptually, G.Y. takes a conventional vintage teenager's camera of the 1960's and fully utilizes it's functions, but within a historical context that centers itself firmly within the traditions of photography. First, it is a camera obscura via the micro 4/3rd camera back's sensor, and then surprisingly it is a reverse camera obscura via the slide viewing function using again the main lens of the camera, which allows this Polaroid Land Camera to mimic the press cameras of old, specifically the Graflex cameras which had the capability to be used as photo darkroom enlargers. Here the Polaroid Land Camera, via two internal lenses, directs the focused image of the transparency into the eye of the viewer, a virtual darkroom. Lastly, the camera's location is made at once to be of prime importance; It is simultaneously a public open gallery and a recording machine. Thereby the antique camera's functionality Is not only fully utilized, but it is given a second life. In fact, G.Y.'s design can be varied for early Kodak, Agfa, and other vintage cameras, Hereafter, photographers can use their vintage "unusable" cameras to "re-photo", which is the main task of my modified camera, to take derivative photos of images, in parts, or as a whole, in the tradition of D. Moriyama. I call this type of photography "re-photography". Perhaps it varies slightly from Moriyama's method by looking for a decisive moment within a photo, and then printing that out onto ordinary xerox paper (as Moriyama has also done) but then utilizing the portrait format of the late 1800's and early history of photography. Although the history of mementos and personal relics was the driving impulse for the creation of the tiny format over 100 years ago, that era of image-making was entirely done by using a formal portrait style. Now re-photography incorporates it with the copy style of Moriyama. So make it blurry, dark, and intense, but make it also tiny and suffuse it with memory, and when this is cut out of an image which is of similar quality already, then it has been extended, aged, like a beautiful old wine or rare cigar. This tiny intimate format of a derivated image, experienced within the understanding of, and informed by, the traditions of the past, is a re-photo. I will introduce the concept of the "re-photo portfolio" in the next installment.

For more information on Gallery Ying modification work and architecture, please see:
www.flickr.com/photos/64011301@N08/8543427514/

Design, text, and photo contents all copyright 2013 by David Lo

Taken on: March 18, 2011

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Camera: LEICA CAMERA AG LEICA X1, f/3.2, 1/80 sec, 24mm (=36mm), ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	LEICA CAMERA AG LEICA X1
Aperture:	f/3.2
Exposure Time:	0.013 sec (1/80)
Focal Length:	24mm (35mm equivalent: 36mm)
ISO:	400
Exposure Bias:	-0.3 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Metering Mode:	Center-weighted average
White Balance:	Manual
Light Source:	Daylight
Scene Capture Type:	Landscape
Contrast:	High
Saturation:	High
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.5 (Macintosh)
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