In 1843, Anna Atkins created the world's first photography book, Photographs of British Algae, using
cyanotype processes.
On view is a recent body of work in which Lambrecht explores the evolution of perception using
the cyanotype process, an early photographic technique dating to the mid-19th century and named for its Prussian blue hue.
Throughout her career, she has explored a variety of light - sensitive materials from the earliest
cyanotype process to the latest technology in digital color photography.
I want to explore how the color blue, as well as the historical connotations of
the cyanotype process, play a role in transforming how the images» content is perceived.
Adding to the admixture are the more mysterious objects obscured during
the cyanotype process that resist the process of naming (and thus significance)-- a reminder of art's resistance to quantitative procedures of data collation and progressive outcomes.
Artist Ryan McGinness began using
the cyanotype process in 2010 as part of a commission for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Shaw's pieces play with
the cyanotype process to create images that evoke architectural blueprints, while McGhee's pieces collage images and textures from urban environments.
Not exact matches
This exhibition of new paintings and
cyanotypes provides evidence of the many different bodies of work McGinness has been exploring in recent years — from self - reflective Studio Views with
process - referencing subject matter to iconic Signals, Skateboards, Mindscapes, and Black Holes.
John Pearson's
cyanotypes and videos are meditations on light and shadow, the
process a direct translation of sunlight into image.
The collection spans much of the twentieth century and encompasses many different
processes, including gelatin silver,
cyanotype, collodion, hand - tinted, chromogenic color, and Polaroids.
The artist has taken silk film through photochemical
processes, coating these delicate surfaces with
cyanotype solution.
The passage of time and the effects of natural and artificial light are ideas and motifs that recur in Shirreff's work, and are forces intrinsic to the
process of making
cyanotype photographs, a practice that the artist continues to explore.
Weil continued to expand on this
cyanotype photographic printing
process in her later work, including in her collaborations with photographer José Betancourt.
The photographs in my current series are printed as
cyanotypes: a photographic
process invented in 1842 by the English scientist and astronomer Sir John Hershel.
Later, she taught alternate photo
processes including
cyanotype and gum bichromate at ICP, Pratt and elsewhere.
The show presents his «
process drawings» and
cyanotypes.
The
cyanotypes are derived from McGinness's
process drawings which incorporate chance, weather and heat into his artistic
process.
Her current body of work uses photograms,
cyanotypes, performance and craft to emphasize self - care through the artistic
process.
Cyanotype is a photographic printing
process that gives a cyan - blue print.
Abe and Surbeck Biddle use the
process of the
cyanotype on both ceramic and paper.
To further attune visitors to how Flint residents experience and take a stand against water's dark side, Frazier produced multi-color prints using the
cyanotype printing
process and organized them into a collage.
Though he frequently experiments, Opera usually opts for one of two photographic
processes: the
Cyanotype, which yields a cyan - colored print, or the Anthotype, which employs photosensitive materials from plants.
One of the oldest techniques in photography, the
cyanotype or blueprint
process uses light - sensitive iron salts rather than traditional silver - based chemistry to achieve its rich, deep blue tones.
Frazier printed many of the images in the show as «
cyanotypes, a 19th century photographic
process that renders images in shades of blue, referencing an architect's blueprint and the idea of «blue collar» work.»
This
process allows for a surprisingly articulate and nuanced brushstroke that evokes, in places, a rudimentary photographic technique like
cyanotype, and in others a more loose and painterly effect.
Influenced by imagery from the nineteenth century, Dugdale began using a large format camera to produce classic
cyanotypes — a rustic
process invented in 1842, capturing friends, family, still life and landscape.
Tasha Lewis is an artist originally from Indianapolis, Indiana, whose sculptural and installation works combine the historic photographic
process of
cyanotype with paper sculpture, stitching, magnets, and ephemeral public art.
The solo exhibition from the New York - based photographer will feature 39 traditional
cyanotypes, made from a printing
process that
Participants will learn the basics of the 19th century Wet Plate Collodion
Process in the two - day workshop, and will create «direct positive» 4» x 5» tintypes, and
cyanotypes from glass plates.
Over the years her vocabulary and interests, including her ongoing experimentation with constructions, sets, and installations at the human scale, have provided a through - line and given a unity to her artwork, even as she has experimented with multiple
processes, from
cyanotypes and Polaroids to Cibachromes and video installations.
Introduced in 1842,
cyanotypes are characterized by their blue tone, a result of the production of iron salts during the developing
process; the heyday of audiocassette tapes was in the 1970s and 1980s.
Nearly every photographic
process from its origins — daguerreotypes, albumen silver prints, gelatin silver prints, gum bichromates, platinum silver,
cyanotypes and even digital archival prints — are in the collection, making it a keen contribution to the history of the medium itself beyond Albany's city limits.
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