Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, American, 1943- Ruth Thorne-Thomsen (born in New York City) has described her work as "environmental collage." Since 1976, she has worked extensively with the pinhole camera and paper negatives to achieve soft-focus effects. She often incorporates into her images handmade miniature props (cardboard silhouettes, cones, pyramids, and ships), constructing mythic tableaux that r