"Photosensitive paper" is a type of paper that can change color or react when exposed to light.
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This move away from the camera has also led Forsyth to explore camera-less photo imaging techniques like the photogram, a Victorian Era process in which light projected
onto photosensitive paper captures the silhouette of an object placed in front of it.
For these images, he starts by making a cameraless photograph, meaning he
exposes photosensitive paper directly to light and uses chemicals to fix the image.
The stones appear in a photograph by Adelina Lopes, Anthony Pearson's shadows derive from objects placed
on photosensitive paper, and Alice Könitz's Circle Lamp of polished plywood and paper would look at home amid Russian Constructivism and the Bauhaus.
In the series Light Events (1976), the artist
used photosensitive paper to capture three seconds of light on five continents.
The slightly concave photograms shown at 36 Orchard Street refer to Marey's diagrams, which record human steps with the use
of photosensitive paper.
Produced entirely in the darkroom, the Freischwimmer works are created without the aid of either camera or negative, the result of the manipulation of light sources by the artist
over photosensitive paper.
On Force is a series of silver gelatin prints produced at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada through the process of breaking shale from the surrounding region directly
onto photosensitive paper.
The result recalls photograms wherein individual objects are placed
on photosensitive paper to produce images using light alone.
Exhibited as silver gelatin prints, Saunders» enigmatic works on paper are created by projecting light through a drawing or painting to expose a sheet
of photosensitive paper.
Many of the images were made without a camera
using photosensitive paper, found objects, and low - fi processes to create the photograms.
For the huge photograms shown in this exhibition, Hefti dusts standard photo paper with «witch powder» or Lycopodium — moss spores that light up when they are set on fire, directly exposing
the photosensitive paper.
Passing light through paintings onto
photosensitive paper, he makes photographic images that are at once painterly and luminous.
She makes these photograms by partially obscuring the paper surface with a sculptural arrangement of opaque materials or by moving found materials across
the photosensitive paper's surface.
The variously reflective texture of
the photosensitive paper on display, coupled as the show unfolds with the widening individual panels comprising the works, affords a subtle sensation of gradual embodiment.
Pauley pushes the boundaries of stonework utilizing the natural reflectivity of polished stone to project his engravings as light and shadow onto
photosensitive paper, capturing the image almost photographically.
She then printed these negatives in the darkroom, exposing
the photosensitive paper to the light of an open flame rather than that of a traditional photographic enlarger, collapsing the pictorial content of the photograph with the process of its making.
Minek does not use
photosensitive paper to capture images of extra-photographic realities.