The accompanying monochromes, chance creations from the residue of
darkroom chemicals, epitomize Tillmans» ability to find aesthetic potential in the unexpected.
This is an alternative
darkroom chemical process using classic lithographic paper and developer.
She died suddenly at home at age 42 in 1885 from ingesting potassium cyanide,
a darkroom chemical.
Not exact matches
«I felt like a photographer in a
darkroom,» he says, «watching as the
chemicals made a picture emerge.»
Digital radiography produces x-ray images without the use of film,
chemicals, or an x-ray
darkroom.
Digital radiography eliminates the
darkroom,
chemicals, and manually filed plastic film.
He'd started out as a photographer, a career that had been his lifelong dream since mixing his own
chemicals in a makeshift
darkroom under his parents» stairway.
Tillmans has become increasingly interested in the
chemical foundations of photographic material, as well as its haptic and spatial possibilities, creating works without a camera in the
darkroom that present photography as a self - referential medium.
Then there are the entirely abstract photographs, experiments in the
darkroom with light sources and
chemicals.
For more than a century, photographers have dealt with the spaces of their studios in strikingly diverse and inventive ways: from using composed theatrical tableaux (in photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron or Cindy Sherman) to putting their subjects against neutral backdrops (Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe); from the construction of architectural sets within the studio (Francis Bruguière, Thomas Demand) to
chemical procedures conducted within the
darkroom (Walead Beshty, Christian Marclay); and from precise recordings of motion (Eadweard Muybridge, Harold Edgerton) to playful, amateurish experimentation (Roman Signer, Peter Fischli and David Weiss).
The print output varies from 19th century and traditional
darkroom processes to digital inkjet and color
chemical prints.
Since 2007, she has processed sheets of expired gelatin silver paper in photographic
chemicals in the
darkroom.
Cotton string, photosensitive
chemicals,
darkroom tray, rug backing and ink, dimensions variable
Throughout the 20th century, artists have explored their studio spaces using photography, from the use of composed theatrical tableaux (in photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron or Cindy Sherman) to neutral, blank backdrops (Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe); from the construction of architectural sets within the studio space (Francis Bruguière, Thomas Demand) to
chemical procedures conducted within the
darkroom (Walead Beshty, Christian Marclay); and from precise recordings of time and motion (Eadweard Muybridge, Dr. Harold E. Edgerton) to amateurish or playful experimentation (Roman Signer, Peter Fischli / David Weiss).
Working in a
darkroom, she manipulates the various
chemicals used in analog photography to make colorful, unique abstract prints on irregularly shaped pieces of photographic paper.
Environmentally, the victory of digital photography is probably a good thing; every time I used my basement
darkroom I was dumping silver and other toxic
chemicals into the lake, and every time people took film into the labs they ended up with a lot of garbage prints.