Marconi sound tube

Photography by Angie Turnbull
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This is the second image from a series that was photographed by Angie Turnbull here at the museum with some objects from our collection. Angie uses a Deardorff large format camera with a Honduras mahogany body (because timber accepts harder use better than metal) and leather bellows between the lens and film plane. Angie manipulates the flexible planes to control the image, focus area and adjust parallax errors and perspective. The camera captures images on a negative that is 8 x 10 inches (20,32 x 25,4 cm). Angie states:

The subtle understated beauty of this bulb drew me in and was/is a quiet personal achievement for me. There are no light reflections in the glass and so your eye glides over it uninhibited and slowly draws you into the workings encased inside which is gently reflected in the silver vacuum piece at the back of the globe and slowly takes you into another world. To photograph this was quite tricky in that I needed to make sure the subtle parts of the image weren’t so blown out and that e the outline of the bulb was visible and so I reduced development of the negative during processing and changed my chemicals that help you to deal with high key images such as this.

This is Angie with her Deardorff camera which was photographed in our basement

Photography by Gordon Undy
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We currently have Angie’s photographic series on display in the Museum.

Photography by Geoff Friend
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