Video: Great interest in small coins. Fundamental Units Photo Project by Martin John Callanan
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
As you know, a penny saves the ruble, but from 10 cents and even more it can run. The only pity is that small coins are gradually going out of circulation. It is too expensive to make such money, because their cost is often twice the face value, and therefore, in a number of foreign countries, small change is practically not used anymore. In order to leave to posterity the memory of this disappearing money, the photographer Martin John Callanan and conceived my own large-scale photo project Fundamental Unitsdedicated to coins of different currencies with the lowest denomination. In this project, Martin John Callanan decided to collect coins from 166 different countries in order to preserve them at least in photographs. Moreover, to take photos of the highest quality, giving curious people the opportunity to examine the coins in the smallest detail, down to the very last notch. So the photographer was working not with a camera, but with a 3D microscope with focusing at infinity, which was provided to him for work at the British National Physics Laboratory. This device produces images with a record resolution of 400 megapixels.
Each coin was photographed with an individual exposure, and then all the resulting images were collected into one giant image, the processing of which took about three days. The size of the finished photographs was 1.2 x 1.2 meters. This turned out to be enough to show the true "face" of each coin from this mega-collection of various little things. The photographs showed all the irregularities, scratches and other mechanical damage to the coins, traces of corrosion and dirt particles - those "scars" that time left on their sides.
Martin John Callanan's art project includes photographs of coins such as the Myanmar kyat and Swedish krona, British penny and Chilean peso, Swazi penny and Romanian ban, Polish penny and Latvian centime, as well as American and European cents and other "pennies". An exhibition of large photographs of small coins kicked off last November in Spain, at the Galeria Horrach Moya art gallery.
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