Eric Renner

Still thinking of you old friend - Photographers and Students appreciate your contributions and miss your unique sage advice.

Eric was my prof. at Alfred. His classes were always interesting for me..We weren't to far apart in age and he treated me as an equal. I am so sorry about his passing...

Think of Eric often, shared many good times @ UC, Alfred U., Alfred NY, Cranbrook. Introduced Eric to Barby Simpson. Yrs. ago a lecture series brought Eric back to the Cinti./KY area, upon entering our house, even though many yrs. had passed bt. personal visits, it felt like we just continued from where we left off. There's something to be said for chemistry bt. personalities. On my personal travels to Sante Fe, a big favorite, and very recently to the Netherlands, still reminiscing times...

I wrote about pinhole photography and taught photo history at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and used Eric's mag. "The Pinhole Journal" often. Students loved his mag. His contribution to the field was incredible. I moved to Santa Fe, NM in 2019 and wanted to look him up, but it was too late when I got around to it. He was amazing and I so wanted to meet him.

Eric was a professor of mine at Alfred University. He was always helpful and treated me with respect. I liked him.

I'm a proud owner of 2, 3 (signed by Eric), and 4 ed of Pinhole Photography, also several pinhole, zoneplate and else from them. Every time I needed some guidance about, they were there. He and Nancy were and are very special people.
Thank you for all!
From Lisboa, Portugal

Eric was a dear friend while I was at Alfred and he treated me as an adult. I just found this..I'm so sorry to hear this..I will miss him!

We never met, though I thought we might some day. I spoke with Eric a number of times regarding photography and when I received a grant to purchase some materials I sourced with Eric, I felt so rewarded that Eric was doing so much with a technique which was so challenging in the early days. I included Pinhole Photography as a subset of teaching Scientific Methods and was rewarded with the utter amazement of students who were finding out that a camera is not always something so complex, and...