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Build complex toys and simple tools
by Tony Karp
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 At an advertising agency, I saw an art director playing with this op-art print. He cut a hole in the center and I asked him to hold it up to his eye. This is the result I'm still trawling through my collection of prints from the distant past. It’s amazing that so many have survived the many moves, a house fire, and a stint in the army. And this is the miscellany that remains. I'm still going through my collection of color slides and they'll show up here some time in the future.
  Count Basie at the recording session for "The Count meets The Duke." Photographed for Henry Wolfe and Show Magazine.  Another shot from the recording session for "The Count meets The Duke."  Another shot from the recording session for "The Count meets The Duke."   A try at industrial photography. The assignment was to shoot an appealing picture of a button-sewing machine. I hadn't figured that the factory would be so dark. I had no lights, but I did have a tripod. I asked if anyone had a flashlight. The result is this light painting.     Pat Suzuki signing autographs after a softball game in Central Park where teams from the Broadway shows competed with each other. Notice the low angle that makes this composition work.  Working with old lens elements, I built this fisheye lens from scratch. This was before you could actually buy one. I tested it on this car's grille.  Another shot with the fisheye lens. It was also used to shoot a magazine cover for Show Magazine.    A macrophoto of surgical wire, showing little specks of dirt that I added while handling it.   After I burned out this transistor in one of my experiments, I opened it up and took this macrophoto of what I had just damaged,  
Some technical notes: The original pictures were shot with miscellaneous Canon rangefinder and SLR cameras. Lenses ranged from 28mm to a homemade diffusion lens that I used to shoot the Count Basie pictures. The film was most likely Tri-X or Plus-X, developed in UFG. The prints were photographed with a Sony DSC-R1 camera and post processing was done with LightZone-3.
Copyright 1957-2023 Tony & Marilyn Karp
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