Over the course of 18 months, Neff used the scanner cameras to photograph his immediate environment, his long - exposure photographic process resulting in mysterious and
tonally rich images that have the look and feel of earlier moments in the medium's history.
In the first years of the 1900s, several of these artists seceded, or broke away, from the mainstream use of the camera as a tool for mechanical reproduction and embraced a new style that emphasized the role of craftsmanship.Through such labor - intensive processes as platinum, gum - bichromate, bromoil, and silver gelatin printing, they created
rich,
tonally subtle
images.