Electrophotography - Short Documentary

A short documentary showing the process of xerography, or electrophotography, using Xerox's oldest commercial copier.
Featuring Tom Carpenter
www.tomrcarpenter.com
Shot, directed and edited by Trent Garlipp
"Reaching Toward The Light" by Third I
soundcloud.com/thirdinoise/th...

[@SciHeartJourney]

This is awesome; thank you for sharing this! I was actually looking for the first "CCD" technologies used in video cameras. I read this on the job once; it starts with fax machines. You charge a wire in the dark and expose it to a single line of light from the image you wish to send. The charge pattern on the wire is static, until you push it out with electric current; and this becomes the electric signal of an image, one line at a time.
The CCD that's on most cameras today is basically an addressable array of the same concept. This signal is digitized right away and sent on as data now. In the 1990's, I worked for company that took this video signal in analog form, and our board digitized it before sending it out as a data stream. This was adavanced stuff back then!

[@roberthirsch7878]

Kudos to Tom Carpenter for breathing new artistic life into this abandon process.

[@DandyDon1]

Is that a Haloid-Xerox 1385?

[@giukk4899]

Hello Trent, my name is Giulia Colombo, I'm a Phd student at Milan University, Italy. I'm currently working on a paper focused on the history of Xerox and the pioneering use of xerographic prints by artists in the Sixties, both in Italy and the United States. During my research for historical documentation attesting for connections between Xerox Company and Italian artistic scene, I contacted the company and was told that Xerox no longer has an archivist on staff, but I nonetheless searching for sources and people that might have information about the archive. Do you have any knowledge of what kind of materials the archive in Webster use to hold? i.e. correspondence, old machines, catalogues, etc... do you know if there is anyone else who I could speak to regarding this research? Thank you for your attention, I hope you can help.

[@desmondtravis7917]

Very interesting!

[@nicholasagaman3701]

How long is the exposure for these photos ?

[@JeroenSteen]

Is their a longer documentary? It's interesting✨