Sentences with phrase «photographic negatives»

Many of the portraits are like photographic negatives, white on black.

The stark color contrasts vividly evoke the qualities of analog photographic negatives.

What results is a kind of photographic negative of the comparably more pastel - hued Annie Hall, a mellow, grayscale romantic melodrama with a liberal dosage of one - liners that would be taken for chemical impurities if the film weren't also manifestly abstracted by Gordon Willis's world - class black - and - white cinematography.

These stunning orchid images were created from photographic negatives that have been hand tinted in black against a background of soft spa and cream.

To create this series of photographs, Lisa Oppenheim used very thin slices of wood from different North American trees as photographic negatives.

Their work includes processing photographic negatives, retouching and enlarging photos, and obtaining hard copies from digital film.

Saleh includes all the ingredients of traditional Hollywood film noir — femme fatales, multiple plot twists, incriminating photographic negatives and gallows humour.

Duncan Campbell, Falls Burns Malone Fiddles, 35 mm photographic negatives and 16 mm film transferred to digital video, 2003.

[citation needed] In 2001 the museum acquired the archive of African - American photographer Charles «Teenie» Harris, consisting of approximately 80,000 photographic negatives spanning from the 1930s to the 1970s.

In the 1880s, Schmid worked for Swiss printing company Orell Gessner Füssli, in which time he created a notable colorizing process for photographic negatives called «Photochrom.»

A color triptych of photographic negatives hangs in the place of a billboard outside the old brewery that houses the New York City gallery Gavin Brown's enterprise.

Likewise, vertical black stripes streaking down the centers of canvases or delimiting their perimeters bring to mind ghosts of Barnett Newman past, though Chirulescu's lines result from the black frames of photographic negatives writ — and reproduced — large.

Dormitory Model is a sculpture of the school's dormitory and is based on an original photographic negative.

In her newest series of mixed media creations, Nicol pushes the bounds of her practice through the inclusion of fine jewelry and pearls, collaged photographic negatives, and such unconventional materials as taffeta, chiffon, and leather.

Oppenheim also employs unusual materials as photographic negatives --- such as fabric, lace, slices of wood — directly recording the objects» specific textures to create near - abstract compositions.

Donnelly writes: «In Das Negativ, Baselitz paints from photographic negatives, resulting in a necessarily dark palette, with subjects obscured in their reversed portrayals — a step beyond the artist's usual practice of painting his figures upside down.

A recent discovery of photographic negatives from the University of Illinois at Chicago library archives brought to light an early part of iconic artist Robert Rauschenberg's career.

Rodriguez sourced these images, which are created to monitor an embryo's health, from a fertility clinic, then transferred the digital files to create photographic negatives, which she then used to produce silver gelatin prints.

Benedict mused that the image on the Shroud functions like a photographic negative, its contrast of dark and light being essential.

The conservative is the photographic negative of the Rationalist.

Perhaps this could be done as a photographic negative — light person, dark negative space / dark person, light negative space.

Reading Animals in Translation is like looking at a photographic negative of ordinary human behavior and consciousness.

Because the template is a perfect complement of the warhead itself, trying to pass off a dummy instead of the real thing would actually do the very thing that nations are trying to avoid: it would reveal some of the secret details of the warhead's composition and configuration (just as a photographic negative lined up with a non-matching positive would reveal the outlines of the image).

Think of it this way: It's as though the isotopes were represented by colors, and the key was a filter placed over the target, with areas that balance each color on the target with its exact complementary color, just like a photographic negative, so that when lined up the colors cancel out perfectly and everything just looks black.

By producing a photographic negative on glass rather than on paper, the resulting images were much sharper and could be made much larger, hence the great interest for astronomers.

He works in the «negative assets» department of Life magazine — meaning he keeps track of the photographic negatives in the publications extensive archives.

The work of Düsseldorf - based artist Michael Reisch has been called postphotographic — a term that, in describing an image created from pixels rather than from a photographic negative, would seem to sit more in the latter category.

Black vertical stripes and blurred clouds by Gerhard Richter play thrillingly with color - field abstraction, slickly mirrored surfaces, and photographic negatives.

Bauer's palette suggests another kind of reversal, too, that of a photographic negative.

The surreal black and white, almost like a photographic negative, helps give them both authority and the mark of their own absence.

March 27 Kelli Connell digitally manipulates her photographic negatives to create intimate scenes in which her models interact with images of themselves.

The original hand - made work is like a photographic negative, which exists only as a means to an end — the photographic print.

The late, great Boetti — one of the pioneers of Italy's Arte Povera movement in the Sixties and Seventies, and one of the world's leading Conceptual artists after that — can be seen sharply dressed, standing with his back to us, and looking at a photographic negative of a child's face that he holds up to the light.

Additional whites suggest a photographic negative or photogram — more signs of nature, but also of the artist at work.

Three - dimensional depth map sculptures drawing on «the formal relationship of both the photographic negative and the binary relationship between cast and mould» will populate the site - specific networked installation, taking over the entire building and exploring «the mutability of symbolism held in form» in dialogue with its architecture.

After Stella's alkyd stripes, one turns to see David Hammons for his eerie riff on the Stars and Stripes, its pan-African colors like a photographic negative of America.

Lockett may reverse black and white as in a photographic negative, so that it shimmers in the night.

The shiny black alkyd here, too, suggests a photographic negative.

The Foundation concluded the donations of its Warhol holdings in late 2014; since its inception, it has gifted 52,000 works and photographic negatives and contact sheets to 322 museums, colleges, and universities in 48 states and 10 foreign countries.

One critic wrote lyrically of the cast's uncanny ability to draw the viewer into «the world of the photographic negative, with its phantom - like reversal of known fact; the world that Alice enters through her looking glass; the world that lurks behind the molten silver mirror in Cocteau's Orphée».

Photographic negatives: Acconci Studio; archival documents: Ilona Rich, Brooklyn.

Specifically calling to mind Rembrandt's celebrated black and white etchings, Rondinone modernizes the powerful yet ethereal effects of light and shade that the Dutch draughtsman reflected in drypoint and inks with a vivid three - part tonal structure: rich black at the deepest structural points and uniform charcoal grey in the middle give way to a luminescent white that evokes the piercing brightness of photographic negatives.