Argus Model C3
Coupled rangefinder
Flash synchronization
Introduced in 1939 selling for $25, this was the most full-featured US camera in its price range and enjoyed a 27-year production run.
“It was American-made and around the mid-sixties Japanese cameras invaded the marketplace and the C3 was discontinued.” – Kevin Raber
Constant motion
Connects shores
Traverse interplay
This juxtaposition of the permanent and the ephemeral mirrors the human condition, where our lives are marked by both stability and uncertainty.
“The world, as the space of human action, is always in flux, always undergoing a process of transformation.” – Hannah Arendt
Contemplation
Passive objects
Active participants
Aesthetic experience is a form of inquiry, a process of exploration and discovery.
“The aesthetic experience, like any other form of experience, is a transaction between the organism and its environment.” – John Dewey
Long seat
Simultaneous
Multiple potential
Decorative arts aim to design and manufacture objects that are both beautiful and functional.
“There are stories in everything. I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands.” – O’Henry
Fleeting moments
Dynamic interplay
Presence absence
In the realm of aesthetic experience the tangible world dissolves into the fluid currents of perception.
“Duration is the form which our consciousness takes when it is turned back upon itself.” – Henri Bergson
Powerful flow
Materiality constraints
Potential transformation
Tools can be used to shape the world around us, to bring life to barren land, and to quench the thirst of the human spirit.
“The will to power is the will to create one’s own values. It is the will to become what one is not yet.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
Low-value
Denomination
Transaction
America’s first nickel coins actually had a face value of three cents.
“Gamblers love coins so much, game manufacturers replicate the sound of coins dropping into the payout tray, even when no coins are involved!” – Scott Roeben
Tone touch
Tuning stability
Long life
Between equally good functional products the user will choose the more beautiful.
“There are two places where I can completely relax: in nature and by the piano.” – Sigrid
Imperial
620 snap shot
Camera
The Herbert George company founded by Herbert Weil and George Israel around 1945 manufactured a slew of simple plastic cameras.
“The lenses are simple meniscus glass lenses, with a fixed aperture of about f/11 and shutter speed of about 1/30- 1/60 sec.” – Mark O’Brien
Hand Forged
Wrought Iron
Meat Hooks
Breathing new life into old materials.
“If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled, or composted, then it should be restricted, designed or removed from production.” – Carl Sandburg