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Part 3. The Untimely Clock: Photography as pastime

A Copal flip clock is made into a camera. Each number flap would be covered in photographic paper, turning the flaps into individual image-capturing surfaces. Due to the mechanism of the clock, different digits of the clock would flip with different frequencies, with different exposure times.

The clock-camera is ideally exposed for 12/24 hour, where the final set of images, laid out chronologically, would be a non-linear documentation of that period of time and space. The integers on the flap would also be imprinted on the image during the exposure, emphasising on the indexicality of each image.

LAM  POK  YIN
林       博       彥



a. the untimely apparatus
    of two amateur photographers

    / part i: telescopic mailing tube
    / part ii: spherical panorama
     / part iii: photography as pastime
    / part iv: operation in the field

    / statement
    / installation view
   

b. other works    
    / when you’ve lost your camera    
    / functional monument   
    / lights unfixed   
    / air (6.75m3)



c.  about
1. The Adaptation of a Time Measuring Device into a Photographic Apparatus Rotational axes which resemble 120 and 135 film spool Chong dissembling the flaps from the clock Rhinocerors 3D file of the chamber Assembling the parts together for the first time 2. 13 Door Viewer Sample Units from A&H Brass on Edgware Road Attaching photo paper on number flaps Looking through the door viewers Arranging the expose photo papers Attempt No.1: Forgot to remove the internal lens cap resulting in unexposed papers 3. Kawara’s Clock in Operation 4. Prints from Kawara’s Clock: an exposure of the 9-hour performance in studio










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1. Adaptation of a Time Measuring Device into a  
Photographic Apparatus

COPAL Flip Clock
Model. QG-872, 1970s
Number flaps fitted with
Ilford Multigrade IVRC Gloss Deluxe Photographic Paper


4. Prints from Kawara’s Clock

Exposure of the 9-hour performance in Studio
9am - 6pm
Shot on Ilford Multigrade IVRC Gloss Deluxe Photographic Paper
2. 13 Door Viewer Sample Units from A&H Brass
3. Kawara’s Clock

Fuji Fujinon SW D 75mm F5.6
Mounted on SLS 3D Printed Chamber,
Cured in resin light-proofed with Ronseal
Black Weatherproof Paint
Fitted on COPAL Flip Clock
Model. QG-872, 1970s
Equipped with Modified Nikonos VF-12 Underwater
Optical Viewfinder