Pinhole photographer martha casanave pinhole

Portraiture · Nudes · Dog Pinhole Camera....

Martha Casanave: Costal Pinholes
From Vol. 1 No. 3

In the 1920s, the beautiful Monterey Peninsula, with the adjacent areas of spectacular Point Lobos and the even more dramatic Big Sur Coast, became a center of landscape photography.

A photographic tradition evolved, starting with Edward Weston, his son Brett, and then Ansel Adams.

I have lived and photographed on the Monterey Peninsula for over thirty years.

As Casanave ventured outdoors with her pinhole camera, working in the style of other prominent photographers like Edward Weston and Wynn Bullock, she explored.

Portraiture · Nudes · Dog Pinhole Camera.

She has been an exhibiting and working photographer and educator on the Monterey Peninsula for over thirty years.

Casanave made beautiful and dreamy images of Leningrad in winter using a pinhole camera (film camera with no lens).

The next generation included Morley Baer, Wynn Bullock, Al Weber, Richard Garrod and Henry Gilpin. To this day, Central Coast black-and-white landscape photography still thrives with the images of John Sexton, Huntington Witherill, Tom Millea, Ryuijie, and others.

I have lived and photographed on the Monterey Peninsula for over thirty years.

I was, and am, privileged to count Ansel, Brett, Morley and others of the present generation as my friends; I have photographed nearly all of them (indoors). And yet this is the first time I myself have ever turned a camera toward the natural scene.

With my poor sense of balance