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This is a completely mesmerizing image, I could look at it for hours.
Posted by: Barbara Fischer |December 24, 2008 8:44 AM
I've been making cliché verres since the mid-80s. Check them out at the above website. Thanks
Another website of my photography: http://welcomebooks.com/theoxfordproject/
Posted by:Peter Feldstein |December 24, 2008 8:56 AM
Posted by: Pam |December 24, 2008 2:17 PM
Peter,
thanks for the links. Much appreciated. The cliche verres sure constitute a substantial body of work. They are very interesting. A favourite from this portfolio of your work.
Your Oxford project is very impressive---photographing every resident (676) in Oxford Iowa, USA, in 1984, then re-photographing those still alive 21 years latter in 2005. I sure hope the Smithsonian, or some similar public institution in the US, is safeguarding that important work in the tradition of Mike Disfarmer. Nothing similar has been attempted in Australia as far as I know.
Posted by:Gary Sauer-Thompson |December 24, 2008 2:47 PM
Gary, I believe that the printing process used by Henry Holmes Smith, was called DYE transfer, a technically challenging, but nonetheless beautiful process, allowing the artist infinite control over colour, it also had superb archival qualities. Elliot Porter and Robert Mapplethorpe also used the process. I learned about it at at Uni, but it was a dying craft even in the 80's.
http://www.jagger.com/dyetrans.html
Posted by:s2art |December 29, 2008 11:36 AM