The abstracted human shape of Flat man / J» en ai assez je dis oui (2015), is formed by the outline
of a photographic emulsion of three men posed as one.
The silver gelatin
of the photographic emulsion echoes the graphite used to describe the original impression of the pavement and provides an elegant reflection on photography's dependence on silver's alchemic properties.
He painstakingly amplifies the physical aspects
of photographic emulsion, printed texts, printed colour plates and maps.
It is thus impossible for every receptor cell to send a separate message to the brain, and the concept that the array of receptor cells is equivalent to the grain
of a photographic emulsion must be abandoned.»
Not exact matches
The particles are much smaller than those in a
photographic emulsion; there are some eight million billion
of them in a cubic centimeter
of the glass.
Each plate was a 14 - inch square
of glass with
photographic emulsion painted on the back.
Cyanine dyes are used in
photographic emulsions to make film sensitive to a greater range
of wavelengths
of light.
Here the antiproton and a proton or neutron from an ordinary nucleus, presumably that
of a silver or bromine atom in the
photographic emulsion, would die simultaneously.
American inventor George Eastman (who would go on to found the Eastman - Kodak company in 1892) builds a machine for coating
photographic plates with
emulsion, which allows for the mass production
of photographs.
One year later, the American physicist Robert Williams Wood recognized the possibility
of improving the sensitivity
of infrared
photographic film using kryptocyanine
emulsion, the chemical cousin
of dicyanine.
«A tin type is a photograph created as a direct positive onto a thin sheet
of tin which has been coated with enamel to support a
photographic emulsion.»
With the eye
of a
photographic plate, he finds the black in the white, the projection in the
emulsion, the print in the press, and the shape in the void.
John Baldessari, Wrong, 1967,
photographic emulsion and acrylic paint on canvas, 149.9 x 114.3 cm, Los Angeles County Museum
of Art, Modern and Contemporary Art Council, Young Talent Purchase Award, M. 71.40, © John Baldessari, photo courtesy
of Museum Associates / LACMA
Early
photographic emulsions were not equally sensitive to all parts
of the light spectrum, and thus a negative that was properly exposed for the landscape left the sky overexposed and splotchy.
Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) Die Frauen der Antike (The Woman
of Antiquity) oil, shellac,
emulsion, sand, ashes and pastel on
photographic paper laid down on paper 110 1/2 x 75in.
After a graphite rubbing
of a paving stone is made
photographic emulsion is applied to both sides
of a piece
of paper and the rubbing is used as a negative to make a
photographic (contact) print.
More recently, Bremer has complicated this process
of alteration, cutting and carving away sections
of emulsion to create etchings on the
photographic surface and using collage techniques to create hybrid images.
For example, there is the evocative imagery that can result from Maine's own process
of stamping carpet textures onto canvas; or the «acrylic, stains, and spray paint on wood panel» by Jaq Chartier that somehow come to resemble
photographic emulsion; or the acrylics on canvas by Thomas Pihl
of subtly gradated color that seem like translucent screens
of light.
Elfman grew the plant from seed and photographed a group
of marble statues and plaster casts, using the plant's juice as a
photographic emulsion to produce a series
of amaranth on paper prints.