Steven Pippin has earned an international reputation over the last decade for his projects that have converted a wide range of everyday objects (truck trailers, toilets, and even entire buildings) into low-grade photographic cameras. His work combines precision engineering with the experimental fervor of the amateur photo bug. In this series, a washing machine becomes the camera, and the artist is the subject. In an age of high-tech digital photography, color photocopiers, and the Internet, Pippin’s works provide a cautionary and melancholy reminder of the origins of photography and capture some of the wonder that this medium inspired in the minds of its first viewers.