Rollout photography

[1] In the basic technique, using strip photography, a camera with a vertical slit aperture is positioned opposite a turntable on which an object is centered.

As the object is rotated on the turntable, the film is exposed in small intervals corresponding to the dimensions of the aperture.

In 1972, Justin Kerr worked with author & anthropologist Michael D. Coe to produce a book on ceramic vessels of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization.

Since this was slow and did not accurately reproduce the images on the pottery, Kerr set out to find a technique that would make a single, fluid picture.

The technique had existed for years, so by using the methods listed above Justin Kerr succeeded in making a camera that captured the first Maya pottery vessel using rollout photography.