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.
Not exact matches
The
use of
photographs - within - film to freeze characters in a milieu while defining it in modern terms was already a worn idea when George Roy Hill claimed it for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and here it's handled with even less integrity, by way of a photographer whose
19th - century camera and anachronistic darkroom give him in a few short hours prints of a quality no photographer achieved before about 1920.
Youngsuk Suh's stunning
photographs magnify the complex interdependency of our relationship with the natural world through contemporary rural landscapes
using the smoke created by wildfires as a reference of the luminous effects of
19th Century Romantic landscape paintings.
The initiative's contribution to the show includes an interactive video display documenting (without the
use of explicit
photographs) thousands of lynchings of black Americans in the late
19th and early 20th centuries.
To add to my confusion and miscalculations, Malek isn't even
using a
photograph of the moon at all to work from, but instead painting from
photographs of plaster models of the moon's surface that where made by James Nasmyth in the mid
19th century.
In these crisp black and white
photographs of the Great Plains, Deal drew upon
19th century survey photography, but
used the horizon line and symmetry of square format to reframe our perception of the landscape as finite.
Using 19th - century
photographs as a ground, Michal's then proceeds to adorn the images with a series of geometric shapes or floral patterns, juxtaposing traditional portraiture with contemporary collage.