The selection of work includes examples
of calotypes, tintypes, photograms and other unusual, unlikely and untimely processes by featured artists, Marco Breuer, Eric William Carroll, Dan Estabrook, Michael Flomen (watch an example of Michael's video work), Michelle Kloehn, and Chris McCaw.
Not exact matches
Then again, Wikipedia says there were processes such as
Calotype introduced in 1841, so maybe so... It would be interesting to specify what type
of process was used.
A thought - provoking mixture
of technology and art, the exhibition displays numerous images taken by Fox Talbot and several contemporary photographers who adopted his
calotype process.
He took up photography in 1843 using the daguerreotype, and later in the mid 1850s, became one
of the first French photographers to use the
calotype, a technique on paper developed in England by Fox Talbot, and introducing the principle
of positive and negative.
A New and Mysterious Art: Ancient Photographic Methods in Contemporary Art brings together an international cohort utilizing the 19th century photographic techniques
of daguerreotype,
calotype, camera obscura, and more to produce vibrant and evocative images.
For them, alternative photography represents exposure to the entire spectrum
of photographic image making, including daguerreotype, tintype,
calotype, and dry plate processes.
DAN ESTABROOK has been making contemporary art for over twenty years using a variety
of 19th - century photographic techniques, including
calotype negatives, salt prints, gum bichromate and carbon.
The exhibition, curated by Jerry Spagnoli, examines the contemporary use
of those techniques and includes daguerreotypes by Takashi Arai, Adam Fuss, and Craig Tuffin; Stephen Berkman's albumen prints from wet - collodion negatives; Dan Estabrook's
calotypes and salt prints; ambrotypes by Luther Gerlach, Craig Tuffin, and Matthias Olmeta; Vera Lutter's camera obscura photography; Sally Mann's positives; and «photogenic drawings» by France Scully Osterman & Mark Osterman.
An exhibition
of contemporary photographs using 19th - century photographic techniques and processes — daguerreotypes, photogenic drawings,
calotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and camera obscuras — is currently on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York.