ANTONY NOBILO
“POP ART VINTAGE CAMERAS”
Antony Nobilo is a New Zealand-born visual artist who graduated with a Bachelor of Fashion Design in 2001. His clients have included Harper's Bazaar Hong Kong, MOMA New York and The V&A London, and he works across a wide range of equipment to produce digital, print, and video work for both commercial and art assignments. Nobilo has collected cameras since the age of 15, amassing over 200 spanning from the earliest days of photography to the present, sourced from countries including Russia, Japan, and England. His series 'Pop Art Vintage Cameras' turns that lifelong collection into portraits in their own right, documenting each camera as a testament to the craftsmanship of its maker and era.
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Signed limited edition print of ALPA Prisma Reflex, c. 1950 by Antony Nobilo from his collection "Pop Art Vintage Cameras". Archival pigment print on Epson Premium Luster photo paper (260gsm), hand signed and numbered, available in three sizes
"A timeless vintage camera photograph from the personal collection. This piece captures the elegant design and craftsmanship of classic photography equipment, celebrating the analog era of photography" Antony Nobilo
CAMERA ORIGIN Ballaigues, Switzerland
TYPE 35mm Reflex Rangefinder
The ALPA Prisma Reflex is one of post-war Switzerland's most exacting camera designs —
compact in the hand yet engineered with the precision of a watch movement. Built by Pignons S.A., it combined rangefinder handling with a prism finder solution that gave the camera its name, creating a machine that felt both technical and unusually refined. With its sculptural top housing, deeply machined controls and interchangeable lenses, the Prisma Reflex belongs to that rare class of cameras that is as admired for its industrial design as for its photographic ambition. ALPA cameras were prized by exacting European professionals and technically minded photographers rather than mass-market amateurs. Their devotees included specialist studio, scientific and architectural users who valued Swiss tolerances above speed, and the broader ALPA lineage has long been collected by photographers drawn to the same precision-minded culture that surrounded Leica and Paillard-Bolex. ALPA bodies were made in far smaller numbers than their German and Japanese rivals, which is why surviving examples feel unusually rare today. The brand's near-mythic status among collectors comes from that scarcity, its uncompromising machining, and the fact that it represented an almost uniquely Swiss answer to the golden age of 35mm camera making.
Framing is available for prints in this collection . Click HERE for more information on how to add framing to your print order
Signed limited edition print of a LEICA M6J, 1994 camera by Antony Nobilo from his collection "Pop Art Vintage Cameras". Archival pigment print on Epson Premium Luster photo paper (260gsm), hand signed and numbered, available in three sizes
"A timeless vintage camera photograph from the personal collection. This piece captures the elegant design and craftsmanship of classic photography equipment, celebrating the analog era of photography" Antony Nobilo
CAMERA ORIGIN Wetzlar, Germany
TYPE 35mm Rangefinder
Produced in a strictly limited run of 1,640 pieces to mark 40 years of the M-system, the M6J revived the classic top-plate of the original M3 while retaining the M6's TTL metering. It is widely considered one of the most desirable modern Leicas ever made. Collected by photographers in the lineage of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Sebastião Salgado, who built their language on the discreet rhythm of the Leica M. The 'J' stands for Jubiläum — German for 'jubilee'. Each body is individually numbered on the top plate.
Framing is available for prints in this collection . Click HERE for more information on how to add framing to your print order
Signed limited edition print of ALPA Prisma Reflex, c. 1950 by Antony Nobilo from his collection "Pop Art Vintage Cameras". Archival pigment print on Epson Premium Luster photo paper (260gsm), hand signed and numbered, available in three sizes
"A timeless vintage camera photograph from the personal collection. This piece captures the elegant design and craftsmanship of classic photography equipment, celebrating the analog era of photography" Antony Nobilo
CAMERA ORIGIN Ballaigues, Switzerland
TYPE 35mm Reflex Rangefinder
The ALPA Prisma Reflex is one of post-war Switzerland's most exacting camera designs —
compact in the hand yet engineered with the precision of a watch movement. Built by Pignons S.A., it combined rangefinder handling with a prism finder solution that gave the camera its name, creating a machine that felt both technical and unusually refined. With its sculptural top housing, deeply machined controls and interchangeable lenses, the Prisma Reflex belongs to that rare class of cameras that is as admired for its industrial design as for its photographic ambition. ALPA cameras were prized by exacting European professionals and technically minded photographers rather than mass-market amateurs. Their devotees included specialist studio, scientific and architectural users who valued Swiss tolerances above speed, and the broader ALPA lineage has long been collected by photographers drawn to the same precision-minded culture that surrounded Leica and Paillard-Bolex. ALPA bodies were made in far smaller numbers than their German and Japanese rivals, which is why surviving examples feel unusually rare today. The brand's near-mythic status among collectors comes from that scarcity, its uncompromising machining, and the fact that it represented an almost uniquely Swiss answer to the golden age of 35mm camera making.
Framing is available for prints in this collection . Click HERE for more information on how to add framing to your print order
Antony nobilo Print Information
Archival pigment print on Epson Premium Luster photo paper (260gsm), hand signed and numbered. Available in the following sizes:
30 x 45” | Edition of 10
40 x 60” | Edition of 5
50 x 75” | Edition of 3
NOTE: Measurements quoted are paper size, with the printed image being slightly smaller to create a natural border to house the photographer’s signature and edition number