A short presentation about my 'alternative' photographic process work that also included an incredibly over-simplified history of photography, and a discussion about the nervous ground occupied by the

1. ORIGINAL COPIES
THE HANDMADE PHOTOGRAPH IN THE
AGE OF DIGITAL RE/PRODUCTION

2. A BRIEF HISTORY

3. A BRIEF HISTORY
Photography could have
been invented in Europe
as early as the 1700s

4. A BRIEF HISTORY
Photography could have
been invented in Europe
as early as the 1700s
The Camera Obscura
was discovered in
ancient times

5. A BRIEF HISTORY
Photography could have
been invented in Europe
as early as the 1700s
The Camera Obscura
was discovered in
ancient times
J.H. Schulze discovers
the light sensitive
properties in a
solution of chalk,
silver and nitric acid

6. ENGLAND V. FRANCE

7. ENGLAND V. FRANCE
Photography is
discovered twice
independently by
William Henry Fox
Talbot & Niépce and
Louis Daguerre in the
early 1800s

8. ENGLAND V. FRANCE
Photography is
discovered twice
independently by
William Henry Fox
Talbot & Niépce and
Louis Daguerre in the
early 1800s
Talbot’s Calotype is the
more accurate ancestor
of film photography, as
it produced a negative
that lent itself to

9. “They say it was the painters who
gave us photography.
I say: No. It was the Chemists”
-Barthes

10. EGGS, SALT AND FLOWER PETALS

11. EGGS, SALT AND FLOWER PETALS
Photography exits in a
state of flux for decades
with much
experimentation

12. EGGS, SALT AND FLOWER PETALS
Photography exits in a
state of flux for decades
with much
experimentation
Dozens of methods are
invented, using many
diverse materials such
as albumen (egg
whites) and solutions
made of crushed flower
petals

13. ATLANTIC WAREHOUSE: CYANOTYPE AND VAN DYKE BROWN

14. PHOTOGRAPHY SOLIDIFIES

15. PHOTOGRAPHY SOLIDIFIES
Film based on the silver
gelatin is introduced in
1884 by Kodak, the box
camera soon follows

16. PHOTOGRAPHY SOLIDIFIES
Film based on the silver
gelatin is introduced in
1884 by Kodak, the box
camera soon follows
By the end of World War
I silver gelatin had
almost completely
replaced all other
processes

17. PHOTOGRAPHY SOLIDIFIES
Film based on the silver
gelatin is introduced in
1884 by Kodak, the box
camera soon follows
By the end of World War
I silver gelatin had
almost completely
replaced all other
processes
For most applications
the process offers the

18. “ALTERNATIVE” PROCESSES

19. “ALTERNATIVE” PROCESSES
Re-emergence date
hard to quantify — safe
to say mid-to-
late-1980s

20. “ALTERNATIVE” PROCESSES
Re-emergence date
hard to quantify — safe
to say mid-to-
late-1980s
Helped into the
vocabulary by the Mike
& Doug Starn

21. “ALTERNATIVE” PROCESSES
Re-emergence date
hard to quantify — safe
to say mid-to-
late-1980s
Helped into the
vocabulary by the Mike
& Doug Starn
The moniker
“alternative” may be a
reflection of the times
— coincides

22. NOTABLE FEATURES

23. NOTABLE FEATURES
Imperfections

24. NOTABLE FEATURES
Imperfections
Obvious markers of a
hand wrought process

25. NOTABLE FEATURES
Imperfections
Obvious markers of a
hand wrought process
Painterly vs.
Photographic
conventions

26. THE AURA OF THE ORIGINAL

27. THE AURA OF THE ORIGINAL
Photography struggles
(perhaps unnecessarily)
with its own validity

28. THE AURA OF THE ORIGINAL
Photography struggles
(perhaps unnecessarily)
with its own validity
The double-layered
stigma of the copy is a
major factors

29. THE AURA OF THE ORIGINAL
Photography struggles
(perhaps unnecessarily)
with its own validity
The double-layered
stigma of the copy is a
major factors
Suspicion of art by
apparatus is another

30. THE IMPORTANCE OF ACCIDENT

31. THE IMPORTANCE OF ACCIDENT

32. EACH REPRODUCTION IS AN ORIGINAL WORK

33. MORE EXAMPLES

34. POLAROID TRANSFER & MANIPULATION

35. SX-70 MANIPULATION

36. INK JET TRANSFER