Artist Alberto Vieceli compiles the strange, humorous and aslant images designed to teach a neophyte camera user how to use their new device

Before one's camera was one's phone, the camera makers of the world had to explain the possible uses of their product in the space of a few pages of a user's manual. How one tilts the camera, holds it with both hands in front of the waist. How one looks through the viewfinder, gazes one-eyed into the world. How one hides it in stockings,

behind the back, and how one lets it peep out from behind the corner of a building, as though he or she were a detective.

Holding the Camera shows a pictorial genre from the now extinct era of analog photography. These images that were once distributed a million times over in instructions and advertisements, had almost entirely disappeared from culture, until now.

艺术家阿尔贝托·维切利（Alberto Vieceli）收集了相机手册、广告和照片杂志上的图片，旨在展示关于如何拿着相机的问题。

在相机就是手机之前，世界上的相机制造商不得不在用户手册中解释他们产品的可能用途。我们要以什么姿势拿着手机？我们如何通过取景器看世界？如何将相机隐藏起来，如何让它从建筑物的角落向外窥视，就像是侦探一样？

本书向我们展示了濒临消失的相机形式，以及如何自然地拿着相机的灵感画报。