Imago

...but, though my first attempt at processing the direct positive paper was NG, here is inspiration enough from Susanna Kraus.

From their website, this excerpt:

The camera IMAGO1 1 offers you the opportunity to make your own life-size self-portrait on black and white photo paper in 60x200 cm. If you, your friends or family who are interested, please contact me via email or telephone.

Price for a unique portrait from € 290, - plus 7% VAT

The camera Imago1: 1, built by the physicist Werner Kraus and the goldsmith Erhard Hößle the early 1970s, with their 7/4/3m L / H / B is the largest walk-in camera in the world for portraits in natural size. The visitor enters the camera, closes it behind him and meets his image in the mirror, the right way, like a stranger. By using a special lens and the self-timer, he is from a silver gelatin reversal paper size 60 x 200 cm projected. In the early 1980s had the camera - after a decade of successful work - will be stored as it was not possible to procure the necessary photographic paper. Three decades later, it was the actress and artist Susan Kraus, a producer for the special black and white photographic paper and to win since 2006, the camera operates IMAGO1 1 again.
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Has anyone near Berlin checked this out yet? We'd like to hear. Also, if you need some of the paper used in this camera, click here for the details.