Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Kabul, 1996. Rothman is managing editor at TIME. The Afghan box camera—a homemade wooden device known as the kamra-e-faoree, meaning “instant camera”—has been used ...
The Afghan Box Camera has been used in Afghanistan for over a century. It’s unlike any other camera in the world, and this beautifully peculiar device, along with the culture surrounding it, is on the ...
Video production cameras tend to fit neatly into one category: Studio-style cameras, box cameras, or PTZ remote-controlled options. But Panasonic wants to merge all three into a single multi-purpose ...
Kabul (AFP) – Haji Mirzaman was just a teenager when he started taking photos using a homemade wooden box camera in his cousin's studio in downtown Kabul. He took black-and-white portraits of people ...
Yesterday, Kodak exited bankruptcy, and the world of consumer products, in order to protect what remains of the once megalithic company. It seems a sad coincidence that exactly 125 years ago, George ...
Seventy-year-old Haji Mirzaman laments as he fiddles with the wooden door on a beloved box camera he has used for 55 years. Just over a decade ago, he was one of dozens of photographers who still made ...
Kabul (AFP) – Haji Mirzaman was just a teenager when he started taking photos using a homemade wooden box camera in his cousin's studio in downtown Kabul. He took black-and-white portraits of people ...