Not all has been jettisoned — the silver
gelatin print seems to be making a comeback — and those portraits set against Photoshopped backgrounds are real people.
Two very different films and a series of five silver
gelatin prints seem to demonstrate, somewhat opaquely, multivalent considerations concerning: the nature of reproduction (libidinal, economic, aesthetic); artistic production / re-production, specifically performative iterations of the «picture;» the «dead» author / birthed reader; and so on.
Not exact matches
Monumental, Davis's icebergs
seem to drift away on the
gelatin silver
prints.
There are also photographs by Felix Gonzalez - Torres, including a group of five framed
gelatin silver
prints (from an edition of two) showing birds that
seem to disappear into the sky, the artist's comment on the fleeting nature of life.
Adam Fuss» untitled 1990
gelatin silver
print portrait, on the other hand, has so little contrast that seeing the boy's silhouette in it
seems to depend on believing that it is there.
They share many of the same seductive qualities as a perfectly
printed silver
gelatin print (like say, an Ansel Adams) that
seems to contain a depth and richness beyond the surface ---- like actually looking into space.