Cyanotype photogram on Fabriano Rosaspino
Photography and the Black Art [Printmaking]
Lifting late summer breezes a song like dry rain comes to passages of grass
There was a buzz in the Scott Building at Plymouth Uni. A new cohort, new looks, new ways of doing things. I was there to meet with our External Examiner Guy Moreton; one of the last details to grace the culmination of the degree. Well, that and the upcoming final show in the newly re-named
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Cyanotype tests for exposure time and paper characteristics. Sometimes the best results are the ones where the future can be seen. For more detail –and some random thoughts– read Cyanotype Day One: New Things, Old Things, Good Things
Photogram / Photo Embossing, (silver gelatin prints) ‘[we] give up questioning a reality which has preferred to disappear, as God did long ago, behind the perfect alibi of images.’ – Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories (1990)
The question may have been What happens when the shutter of a camera is left open? A study of light and luminous flux: crazed diagrams for building self-contained dark environments with condensing barriers, air vents, and masses of black gaffer tape. Notes on reciprocity and what B&W films could stand up to sixteen hours of
NB. This is a post pulled from my archives (seven years old). Happily, The Network Photographers Agency –and its rich history– has found a home online at Network Photographers Online. Last week, I caught the tail end of BBC Radio 4’s five-episode “Picture Power”, radio interviews with five different photojournalists. Delicious irony that radio can