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.
Lush images of modern dance pioneers; haunting
early cyanotypes of algae (the first photographic works to be produced by a woman); majestic geographical surveys taken along the Union Pacific Railroad, iconic Depression - era images taken under the Farm Security Administration's famed photography program; Berenice Abbott's epic documentation of 1930s New York for the Federal Art Project; stunning 19th century vistas of the Egypt and Syria; scenes and portraits of Ellis Island Immigrants, the Statue of Liberty under construction...
Not exact matches
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.
In the
early 1950s, when Rauschenberg was living with artist Susan Weil in a one - room apartment on West 95th Street in Manhattan, they produced a series of
cyanotypes — images produced without a camera, by shining an ultraviolet light on an object or nude model resting on blueprint paper, exposing the paper where the light isn't blocked and creating a negative shadow of the object or model's outline, similar to the way an X-ray is done.
Examples include Julia Margaret Cameron's soft - focused and reverential Herbert Wilson (1868), which helped to move photographic portraiture from pure documentation to artistic intention; and Edward Curtis's field - printed
cyanotype of an American Indian (c.1900 - 1930), which also shows how
early photographers checked the quality of their images before digital photography.
Among a selection of work that deals with the practice of image making — looking closely at color, pattern, texture, and materials — photographer Matt Lipps combines personal history with the history of photography in his collaged «Library of Photography» series; Sean Raspet fuses the optical with the tactile in wall - mounted lenticular lenses; and
cyanotypes by Barbara Kasten, produced in 1974, offer some of the contemporary photographer's
earliest works.
Organized in collaboration with a seminar from Clark University, the exhibition will be presented with thematic emphasis on botanicals, landscape, abstraction, and portraiture — areas that dominated much of the production of
cyanotypes in the
early twentieth century and recur in contemporary work.
Since 2014 Thomas Ruff has been working on his Negatives, a series in which he converts the typical sepia tones of
early photography into cyan tones, thus not only harking back to the
cyanotypes o...
A never - published
cyanotype print by Edward Curtis captures Cheyenne tipis in the
early days of the 20th century.