The Potential Use of Alternative Photographic Processes
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What is the purpose of using an alternative photography process? Should the process enhance the content or the content enhance the process? Is it beneficial for the art work or not? A lesson for photography students with examples.
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The Potential Use of Alternative Photographic Processes
- 1. The Potential Use of Alternative Photographic Processes Lessons for Photography Students
- 2. What are Alternative Photographic Processes? Photographic processes that are not in massive use, (such as digital photography, iPhoneography, etc). Historical photographic processes ,contemporary variations of historical processes and new inventive (DIY) processes, are considered to be alternative photographic processes .
- 3. Examples of historical photographic processes Heliography Physautotype Photogenic Drawing (Photograms) Daguerreotype Albumen & Salt Prints Cyanotype Wet Plate Collodion (Ambrotypes & Tintypes) Crystoleum / American Ivorytype / Chrysotype / Ivorytype / Opalotype Kallitype & Van Dyke Brown Stereo photography
- 4. Examples of contemporary photographic processes 35mm Ambrotype 3D Anaglyph Photography & Lenticular Analog Print Acrylic gel lift and transfer Becquerel Daguerreotype Caffenol Photography Cross Processing Liquid Light Emulsion Lith Print Pinhole Photography X-Ray (Radiology) Art Photography
- 5. The Alternative Photography Trend Historical processes are practiced by many throughout the years. Adventurers usually practice historical print techniques. At the same time, artists looking for a unique way of expressing themselves, developed new contemporary ways of presenting their works. The hype of alternative photography began more or less by Sally Mann.
- 6. Sally Mann Mann became world wide known when publishing the controversial book Immediate Family, portraying her young children, not just as playful, ephemeral things, but as fragile, even sexual human beings. Virginia at Four, Sally Mann (1989)
- 7. By using the wet collodion process, in an old bellows view camera with 8x10 glass negatives, she creates a beautiful Victorian feel that is almost painterly. Her photographs pulls you into them, as if you are part of the landscape. The strong romantic feeling adds a dimension to the content of the photographs. The Flesh and The Spirit - Sally Mann
- 8. Reasons for using Alternative Photography There are many reasons photographers use alternative photographic processes to communicate with, among them: • Adding a feeling to the photograph • Being unique • Exploring creative possibilities • Making a statement • Adding content to the photograph by using a specific technique • The process or equipment as part of the art Lets look at some examples…
- 10. HIV Camera & Portrait - Wayne Martin Belger
- 11. Look! My Family- Erwin Olaf
- 12. Egg Pinhole Camera - Francesco Capponi
- 13. X-Ray Art - Nick Veasey
- 15. Proud Flesh - Sally Mann
- 16. Silver and Water - Lauren Bon with The Optics Division Team, The Metabolic Studio
- 17. First Concept, Then Alternative Photography! To use alternative photographic processes in harmony with your photographic creation, be aware of the reason you are using a alternative photographic process , determine if you want the technique to enhance the content or the content to enhance the technique, look for the right content-technique combination and see if using a specific technique is accessible to you.
- 18. Learn from the photography pioneers… Joseph Nicéphore Niépce William Henry Fox Talbot Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre Hippolyte Bayard Frederick Scott Archer The process; not the results is what matters… Lumière brothers Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard Sir John Herschel Anna Atkins Steven Sasson
- 19. Read Books… The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, by Christopher James Primitive Photography: A Guide to Making Cameras, Lenses, and Calotypes by Alan Greene The History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present by Beaumont Newhall A Guide to Early Photographic Processes by Brian Coe and Mark Haworth-Booth Photographs of the Past, Process and Preservation by Bertrand Lavédrine Photo-Imaging: A Complete Visual Guide to Alternative Techniques and Processes by Jill Enfield Photography Beyond Technique by Tom Persinger From pinhole to print by Malin Fabbri, Gary Fabbri and Peter Wiklund Coming Into Focus: A Step-by-Step Guide to Alternative Photographic Printing Processes by John Barnie Digital Negatives: Using Photoshop to Create Digital Negatives for Silver and Alternative Process Printing by Brad Hinkel and Ron Reeder Handbook of Non-Toxic Intaglio by Henrik Bøegh
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