The Kodak Brownie Hawkeye was introduced in 1949 in USA and France. It’s a bakelite camera which produces 6cm x 6cm images on 620 film. It came in two different models: Standard and Flash. You can differentiate between the two by the nameplate on the front.
The Kodak Brownie line of affordable cameras was first introduced in 1900 and cost $1, bringing photography to the masses and pioneering snapshot photography. Mexican photographer Raymundo Panduro of Tlaquepaque, Jalisco wanted to pay tribute to this iconic camera, so he spent two weeks (in his free time) building a homemade pinhole camera based on a Brownie Hawkeye that he had purchased at a flea market.
There's an intensity on Hawkeye Huey's face as he looks out from Salvation Mountain in California, Fujifilm Instax 210 in hand, goggles askew on his forehead, eyes searching the horizon for the next exposure. It's the kind of intensity typified by at least two kinds of people: 4-year-olds and National Geographic photographers.
Which makes sense, since Hawkeye is the first, and his father, celebrated photographer Aaron Huey, is the second.
We’ve featured a Brownie camera clock in the past, but that one was a custom-made gift. Minnesota-based …