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Known for Sculpture Movement Young British Artists  Steven
Pippin (born 1960 at Redhill, Surrey) is an English artist.
Pippin works with converted or improvised photographic equipment
and kinetic sculptures.  Pippin's work shows a strong interest
in the mechanical, which he has said stems from an early
childhood memory of seeing his father surrounded by the wires
and tubes of a television set he was repairing. Pippin's early
work was based on converting furniture and everyday objects into
makeshift pinhole cameras which he then uses to take sympathetic
photographs.[clarification needed] This sounds simple, but often
involves a significant amount of planning to overcome the
practical problems posed by the chosen object. Pippin typically
has to plan and construct a significant amount of supporting
equipment in order to achieve his pictures. Frequently the
resulting photographs are distorted o