There is nothing like Dennis Manarchy’s “Eye of America” film camera. This 35-foot custom-built film camera is the largest film camera in the world, and it produces a gigantic 6-foot by 4.5-foot film negative capable of producing 2-story prints with unprecedented resolution. Each negative resolves 1,000x more detail than the highest-end production cameras.

Vanishing Cultures: An American Portrait by Dennis Manarchy from Distortion Design on Vimeo.

The Vanishing Cultures: An American Portrait

However, this super-camera is not for showing off. Manarchy, whose work is part of a permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art, will be using this camera for the most ambitious project of his life, “The Vanishing Cultures: An American Portrait.” Once he and his team completes the traveling version of this camera, Manarchy will travel over 20,000 miles around the United States to record over 50 American cultures. At the end of the journey, Manarchy plans to hold big exhibitions in different parts of the country.

The Vanishing Cultures: An American Portrait from The Vanishing Cultures on Vimeo.

The Vanishing Cultures Project

Below are some of the sample images of test subjects taken with the prototype.

To learn more about this highly ambitious project and see more images taken with the prototype of this camera, please visit TheVanishingCultures.com

Thanks to ISO1200 for the find!

Thanks to Petapixel for the find.

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