Re: Jan Faul is Alive and Well

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I found my name at the end of Raphael, but no photo or other reference for some folks above me and there was no one below me.  It was as though I had kept the camera!  Curious.  I drove 30 miles for the photo and have never seen it.

Roger

On 21 Jul 2011, at 5:27 PM, Pini Vollach wrote:

> You are right.
> There was only one project with three cameras.
> The big thing with the original idea was that all of us used exactly the same equipment and waited to the surprise which came with the development / scan / publish process.
> Meanwhile, Bob published on the web a lot of pictures documenting the ongoing.
> A great fun that I'm doubt will be with digital.
> One more thing: There were at least 10,000 ! e-mails around this enterprise.  
> I remember how the Americans had a very big argue about the rights on the pictures.
> Me, and I think most of the Europeans, only wanted to have fun.
> 
> Pini Vollach
> 6 Tsivoni
> Haifa 34651
> Israel
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Thyer
> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 2:40 AM
> To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
> Subject: Re: Jan Faul is Alive and Well
> 
> As I recollect it, there was only one pass the camera event, but that 3 
> cameras were circulated around the world.
> 
> I still remember the picture I took, and do remember seeing it on the web, 
> but cannot remember the web location.
> 
> Why not try another "Pass the Camera" event, but change the procedures.  Ask 
> members to take just 1 picture in their neighbourhood given a 1 week window, 
> most will do this digitally these days, then send in for a display.
> 
> Jim Thyer
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Roger Eichhorn" <eichhorn@xxxxxx>
> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" 
> <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 9:24 AM
> Subject: Re: Jan Faul is Alive and Well
> 
> 
> I'm trying to recall.  Weren't there two pass the camera events?  I know 
> that I participated in one of them, but perhaps not the other.  Did we ever 
> see the photographs?  It seems to me that I drove over to the 1930's San 
> Jacinto Monument* and photographed it with the disposal camera.  I don't 
> recall ever seeing the image.
> 
> *Jesse Jones, Roosevelt's Treasury Secretary or Secretary of Commerce found 
> Federal Money to support the project.
> 
> Roger
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On Jul 12, 2011, at 4:55 PM, Mario Pires <retorta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Come on, i really like to have it back, i'll put it on my server!
>> 
>> Mário Pires
>> 
>> Curso de Estética Fotográfica -http://esteticafotografica.org
>> 
>> retorta@xxxxxxxxx
>> http://www.retorta.net
>> http://twitter.com/retorta
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 22:51, Pini Vollach <pinimage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>> wrote:
>>> If it exist, Bob Talbot have it.
>>> 
>>> Pini
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>>> [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mario Pires
>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 12:22 AM
>>> To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
>>> Subject: Re: Jan Faul is Alive and Well
>>> 
>>> Nobody saved it ?
>>> 
>>> I think it deserved to be on-line, i'll put it on my server to preserve 
>>> it!
>>> 
>>> Mário Pires
>>> 
>>> Curso de Estética Fotográfica -http://esteticafotografica.org
>>> 
>>> retorta@xxxxxxxxx
>>> http://www.retorta.net
>>> http://twitter.com/retorta
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 22:17, Pini Vollach <pinimage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> As much as I know it is not online any more.
>>>> This web page was made by Bob Talbot from UK.
>>>> Jan said that the Smithsonian want the stuff because its primacy.
>>>> Of course this didn't happened after he had confiscated the film.
>>>> 
>>>> Pini Vollach
>>>> 6 Tsivoni
>>>> Haifa 34651
>>>> Israel
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>>>> [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mario Pires
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 11:40 PM
>>>> To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
>>>> Subject: Re: Jan Faul is Alive and Well
>>>> 
>>>> I lost the link to the Pass the Camera Project, is it still on-line ?
>>>> 
>>>> I thinks we where pioneers on the "Photosharing" front!
>>>> 
>>>> Mário Pires
>>>> 
>>>> Curso de Estética Fotográfica -http://esteticafotografica.org
>>>> 
>>>> retorta@xxxxxxxxx
>>>> http://www.retorta.net
>>>> http://twitter.com/retorta
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 21:31,  <wpettit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> Actually, he did release the film to another member of the group, and 
>>>>> she (I
>>>>> believe) made it available.  As I recall, my image had a very strange
>>>>> greenish cast.  For all I know, it may still be around somewhere.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Bill Pettit
>>>>> 
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Pini Vollach
>>>>> Sent: Jul 12, 2011 4:20 PM
>>>>> To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
>>>>> Subject: RE: Jan Faul is Alive and Well
>>>>> 
>>>>> I’m not.
>>>>> 
>>>>> He didn’t had a chemical disaster.
>>>>> 
>>>>> He had a film that was shot by many members including him but for 
>>>>> unknown
>>>>> reason (I can only guess…) the outcome didn’t pleased him and he had 
>>>>> decided
>>>>> not to show it to the group members.
>>>>> 
>>>>> This deed was not agreed by all the group but he didn’t changed his 
>>>>> mind.
>>>>> 
>>>>> A very unsocial behavior .
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Pini Vollach
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
>>>>> wpettit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 2:52 AM
>>>>> To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
>>>>> Subject: Re: Jan Faul is Alive and Well
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I, for one, miss Jan's contributions and his diatribes.  As I recall, 
>>>>> he
>>>>> left the list after he had a chemical disaster with the first pass the
>>>>> camera project and many of us severely criticized him for his 
>>>>> failure--as if
>>>>> none of us had ever failed....
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 

Roger Eichhorn
Professor Emeritus
University of Houston
eichhorn@xxxxxx






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