The Excelsior Six

Posted on March 19th, 2008




New Invention: The Excelsior Six – a camera that produces an ink drawing onto aged paper set in a small frame. Made from scrap parts from a film enlarger which was converted into an animation stand. I started out building a camera to take Daguerreotype pictures but decided that the process in which the image is exposed directly onto a mirror-polished surface of silver bearing a coating of silver halide particles deposited by iodine vapor seemed too complicated. And I’ve always wanted a camera that would take drawings of things- since photographs can get so boring.
Drawings from the camera to come soon.
Photos by Kent Colony (my official photographer)

  • Anonymous

    check out those baby blues. you look like a golden angel in those shots. have you thought of male modeling? i can really write whatever i want in this comment bc i don’t think you’ll publish it. i like the clamp lite. did you write the excelsior six logo on the camera in white out? ok, gotta fly. jw

  • ian picco

    this is amazing. you look like a young oil mogul in that last picture.

  • Landry_kabul

    your time machine sounds like a lot of fun. Awesome idea !