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| | SFMOMA | Exhibitions | Steven Pippin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | From a box of biscuits to washroom fixtures, Pippin turns the most ordinary objects and places into photographic apparatuses -- studio, camera, darkroom -- through artistic endeavors that are at once optical, mechanical, electrical, and chemical. |
 | | Pippin's capacity to create photographic images with neither traditional camera nor developing facilities recalls the inventiveness and resourcefulness of the medium's earliest practitioners. |
 | | After preparing and priming all twelve machines, Pippin, dressed conservatively in a dark suit, walked through the laundromat, hitting the wires and causing the shutters to open and the bulbs to flash, thus exposing the film in the drum. |
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