1980's
Exception to the rule: some text about this image, after receiving a comment from blog-pal RunE at Visual Norway.
My own take on the 19th century printing technique cliche-verre, which is representative of most of my work in the '70s and '80s. (Less expensive than film and chemicals; I like to work directly with my hands; I liked working in the darkroom.)
A type of "negative" that I made by sandwiching materials between clear shelving paper. It's had a lot of "children," so to speak, usually contact printed onto b&w fiber-based mural paper, or c-print. In this particular case, I photographed it with polarized lights against a black velvet background, making a 4x5 inter-neg and lots of small slides. This is a scan of one of those slides. With the inter-neg, I then printed large size cibachromes, that pretty much looked just like this. (I love cibas because they add this type of multidimensionality that just pops the colors.)
That's it. No computer or other manipulation.
4 comments:
Some collage - Photoshop (excuse me!) or real! It looks real to me!
Thank you for nice comments!
I like this. It has a tenderness about it. Funny how an inert object can conjour up a vague emotion. But, tenderness, frail - that is what I see.
Thank you taking the pains in telling me about this. Sounds, interesting, fun and difficult. I have some dark room experience myself and have also worked with histochemistry a little bit, do I can appreciate the work and time invested.
Nice work, snhow!
I like this one too.
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