#Cameraless Photography

[kimevans]

#lumen print #cameraless photography #photogram #alternative photography #leaf print

[hauntedbystorytelling]

La suma · Borges & Cordier

(top) ‘Chemigram 15.9.91 ‘from La Suma of Jorge Luis Borges”, chemigram by Pierre Cordier, 1991 Belgium. Museum no. E.330-2018 | src V&A museum View & read more on WordPress

Chemigram 20.3.92 from 'La Suma of Jorge Luis Borges', chemigram by Pierre Cordier, 1992, Belgium. Museum no. E.859-2010 | src V&A museum

Ante la cal de una pared que nadanos veda imaginar como infinitaun hombre se ha sentado y premeditatrazar con rigurosa pinceladaen la blanca pared el mundo entero:puertas, balanzas, tártaros, jacintos,ángeles, bibliotecas, laberintos,anclas, Uxmal, el…

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#chemigram #argentinian poet #cameraless photography #Jorge Luis Borges #photography without a camera #1990s #Pierre Cordier #poem #poetry

[zurich-snows]

Alison Rossiter, Compendium, 1911-1913, 2018.

#alison rossiter #contemporary photography #photography #expired film #cameraless #cameraless photography

[peculiarmachine]

february 2023

i made a pinhole camera and these are some of the first shots

#film photography #black and white #analog #pinhole camera #cameraless photography #alternative process #alt processes

[k00288209]

Eric William Carroll and Camera-less Photography

Secondary Research / Artist Research

While researching camera-less photography, I came across a video document on Eric William Carroll's creation process. 

In the document, Carroll explained that as modern photography has gotten easier, to create art, he wanted to make the process of photographing a little bit more challenging for himself so he turned to camera-less photography.

During the document, we get to see Carroll’s work process as he captures the shadows of nature for his contemporary collection Blue Line of Woods (2010-2015). He uses big sheets of light-sensitive blue line paper that activate in the sunlight and create the image using the contrast of light and shadow. Carroll runs the sheets through an ammonia fume processor which turns the yellow pigment of the diazo salt on the sheets into a beautiful blue, creating this capturing atmosphere.

In an instant, I was amazed by his work. I've always enjoyed observing the contrast and the movements of the shadows created by foliage. Carroll's introduction to this way of capturing shadows which is completely new to me was absolutely mindblowing, especially when considering the scale he works on. Observing Shadows of different daily situations would be very interesting using this medium.

Carroll also brings up how the images on the sheets will change color and fade when time passes and how the ephemerality of the images strips away the preciousness of the photograph itself, making the whole creation process and exhibition part of the piece.

#lsad #first year #temporary #secondary research #cameraless photography #lumenprint #luminogram #eric william carroll #artist research #shadows #foliage

[drogal]

#lumen print #cameraless photography

[uhhhhmandart]

The sun is back, so my cameraless photography adventures have resumed! Yesterday I made my first cyanotypes! Clockwise from upper left: Acer japonicum 'Bloodgood', Anemone nemorosa, Taraxacum officinale, and Convolvulus arvensis.

#printmaking #my art #cameraless photography #cyanotypes #botanical art

[annaxmalina]

{2023} untitled (prominences) lumen & chemigram

#gif #animation #artists on tumblr #anna malina #original art #selfportrait #lumen #lumen print #chemigram #experimental photography #cameraless #experimental #violet #2023 #colour #fomaspeed

[amaliatheartist]

I made a photogram at university yesterday.

#and it looks good and I’m really happy with it!! #cameraless photography is really cool btw #this semester has been…tiring to say the least #the schedule is a hot mess #I just hope everything goes well #amalia's thoughts

[eucanthos]

Adam Fuss   (UK, 1961)

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The space between Garden and Eve, 2011. Daguerreotype 59.7 x 96.5 cm (23 1/2 x 38 in)

Home and the World, 2010. Daguerreotype 70.5 x 106.7 cm (27 3/4 x 42 in)

https://www.cheimread.com/artists/adam-fuss/gallery/selected-works

#Adam Fuss #photography #daguerreotype #exprimental #cameraless #bed #black #body #snake #technique

[kimevans]

#lumenprint #lumen print #cameraless #cameraless photography #alternative photography #botanical photography #photogram

[disasterxjoan]

got something for plants in pink…

#art #my art #chemigram #lumen print #photography #digital photography #alternative process #cameraless #nikon #flowers #floral art #close to nature #pink #nostalgia

[leslie-allen-spillane]

Henri Blommers

Henri Blommers is an Amsterdam-based fine-art photographer working in general analog, with a variety of cameras and techniques. He creates a refuge out-of-this-world dimension full of bold colors, based on contemporary socially engaged themes like plastics and the impact on our future, and digital influences on our lives, and is co-creator of Hello Gorgeous magazine fighting the stigma around HIV.

In his projects, Henri materializes the images by cooking film in plant material, soaking negatives for weeks in salt, or spraying agricultural chemicals on film.

Nature under threat

During my research, I photographed the places that different stakeholders in forestry, farming, water management, and the local community referred me to. Areas where biodiversity is either increasing or decreasing or where changes in policies have been implemented. For example, leaving the remains of fallen trees, keeping field margins intact, having weeds in between crops, having streams go their own natural way, leave rocks in the fields. In other words, restoring the multitude of biotopes, so uniquely found in Switzerland.

Homo reconnectus

Regeneration is necessary if we want to overcome the climate crisis. We can achieve this by implementing regenerative agriculture (traditional farming without chemicals, artificial fertilizers, and concentrated feed) and reducing cattle so drastically that they are only grazing for nature management and living on residual flows. The reduced methane and nitrate levels will result in soil impoverishment leading to improved biodiversity. We can improve the basis even more drastically by connecting loose pieces of nature, such as forests, meadows, and gardens, enabling plants and animals, now blocked by roads and other human obstacles, to find their species for mating. Also, the concept of ownership needs to change: our garden is not our property. We are only its temporary stewards. Chaos is good, not the controlled black earth stony garden that is the common ideal now. Our human perception that nature starts beyond the fence of our garden needs to change. Education and re-prioritization are fundamental if we are to become part of nature again. To be part of the pyramid and not at the top, a new type of human, Homo Reconnectus.

Analog images developed in water from rivers in agricultural areas and boiled with plant remains of invasive or proliferating species due to climate change. The negatives were then treated with glyphosate, fertilizer, nitrogen, ammonia, and biological pesticide or incorporated into analog or digital collages.

#alternative photography #experimental photography #nature #eco processing #photography #botany #darkroom #cameraless photographic processes #plants

[pierrebarrauddelagerie]

This year, with @lelabodesarts I worked in workshops with children from a college for a project related to the archeological excavations of an ancient roman cemetery in Normandy. They visit the site last year and then reflected in class on Roman funeral rites, on the relationship to death and its imagination. There have been several different workshops, the one I show here is a "Cameraless" photography work using my old scanner. I made them use cut-out black paper shapes placed directly on the scanner with colored backgrounds and various objects (golden paper, glass, etc.) they created very evocative images on the imaginary of the underworld There is no edit of the picture after the scanning. #alternativephotographicprocesses #cameraless #cameralessphotography #photoproject #childrenworkshop #archeology #archeologie #greekunderworld #romanarcheology #experimentalphotography #scan #digitalphoto #digital #digitalphotography #digitalphotographer #photography #experiments #experimentalphotography #scannography #scannographyart #numerique #photonumerique #labodesarts #labodesartscaen #photographie #photographienumérique https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce3mbHFrkEH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#alternativephotographicprocesses #cameraless #cameralessphotography #photoproject #childrenworkshop #archeology #archeologie #greekunderworld #romanarcheology #experimentalphotography #scan #digitalphoto #digital #digitalphotography #digitalphotographer #photography #experiments #scannography #scannographyart #numerique #photonumerique #labodesarts #labodesartscaen #photographie #photographienumérique

[k00288209]

Blueprint / Workshop

21st/Dec

I was excited to see that a workshop on blueprint was available as I did my first artist research on blueprint with Eric William Carroll who also inspired my blueprint work.

Keeping in mind my primary research I wished to do prints on what I see during my travel between school and home. I was focusing in what I see when I look up and what I see when I look down

I had time to do only one print barely, as I had to catch the bus, again.

To print with photographs we were shown how to process a black and white picture on the printer to print it negative and then on transparent paper.

I kept my pictures normal as I thought this would give me a more interesting blueprint.

However, the print did not pick up all the detail of the picture and it didn’t turn out how I was excepting.

I would say this print was a failure.

#lsad #temporary #first year #blueprint #cameraless photography #workshop

[thirdtidemouse]

(In response to your losing your rant post.) If you ever get up to or feel like ranting about the art stuff and Kaisa’s interests in that again, I’d be very glad and also interested to read it. :) Art theory is great.

aww im thrilled someone is interested!!! i will have a go at rewriting some of it. just for you anon. i might do one about johanna, who's more inclined to illustration - like i said in previous posts kaisa is more anologue photography/fine art, and i embarrassingly don't actually know many photographers, but i have some more conceptual artists she would enjoy too.

long rant with pictures below, about artists, which you should totally read even if its boring because i would be soo happy (just kidding):

starting off with photography though:

Man Ray. these are 'rayographs', a cameraless photography technique, now more well known as photograms.

photography without cameras?!?! crazy!!!! Man Ray pretty much pioneered this technique into modern popularity with his much more surreal style, after William Fox Talbot was printing pieces of flora in the 19th century. photograms happen when you take an unexposed piece of photography paper, place objects on it in a darkroom, and quickly flash it with light. once developed, the shadows of the objects will be left white, and the exposed parts of the paper will turn black, leaving these beautiful imprints behind.

kaisa absolutely loves the darkroom, the more hands-on the technique the better (she might smell like chemicals). photograms work best with translucent objects. rubber gloves, strips of film, marbles, lightbulbs. as much as she loves black-and-white, these totally magical photograms by photographer Anne Hardy definitely would inspire her. i hope you can imagine some of the stuff she comes up with. it literally looks like magic.

if you haven't checked out @/hilda-the-librarians-wife 's hospital au, then first of all please do, but second of all can anyone else see the parallel with this artwork and pathologist dr kaisa underhill?!? these look microscopic, or like deep-sea fauna. this feeling of a glimpse into another world, which is something wife mentioned about cells and microscopy, is what i think kaisa would be fascinated by.

i'll mention some older art before i move onto installations - i dont know a whole lot about art history this far back, but i'm sure plenty of people will recognise Francisco Goya, so i have to quickly mention him. long painting below:

also known as the guy that did saturn devouring his son, goya's 'black paintings' (many of which were painted directly onto the walls of his home) bring that heavy nightmarish feeling that i think that moody moody bitch would love. i love goya's dog, the first painting. it is very imposing. and look at those depictions of witches - a little on the nose, but those dark, crowded scenes are just so much to take in!

now onto another quite macabre artist, Louise Bourgeois. you might again recognise her stuff - her spider installation, named Maman, went a bit viral at one point i think. the spiders were not a one-off thing and they crop up a lot as symbolism for, alongside other things, mothers and maternity. for context, she was born to antique tapestry repairers, and a lot of her work reflects on her childhood. these spiders, both threatening predators and industrious repairers, sometimes guarding hoards of eggs, give way to these ideas of maternal care and mending/weaving. her work carries themes of family, motherhood, abandonment, and fertility.

she describes these structures pictured above as 'cells'. a lot of her work is in cages. i really like the room made of doors, ghostly clothing hung up on cow bones barely blocking the view in. look at the tiny bed atop the tiny spiral staircase. it does a great job of making you think about who might sleep there.

i think kaisa, having a relatively lonely upbringing and complicated family, would both connect with Bourgeois' work and appreciate the unsettling nature of it ^_^

one last installation artist, because i'm a sucker for an immersive experience. this ones a doozy, probably a long one - Mike Nelson. i'm including him because of all the exhibitions i've visited, his Extinction Beckons genuinely scared me. not in some deep existential way, i was just truly unsettled. his stuff isn't nearly as dark or spooky as Bourgeois or Goya, but the way you are totally dunked headfirst into his imaginary parallel worlds really puts you off balance. and by god i think kaisa would love that.

i will describe to you, if you are at all bothered, some of the features of that exhibition!

the first i'll say is longer, the deliverance and the patience.

if you can imagine a large gallery room, please then imagine a set of constructed rooms within it, like a big box with an entrance and an exit. when you enter, the door shuts behind you; the ambience is literal nonstop creaking of doors and floorboards, from the other visitors wandering the structure out of your sight, interspliced with the humming of electric fans. the room you are in feels like the no-turning-back point. the next door invites you in.

this is where the atmosphere sets in for good. this is what you are greeted with, as you walk in from the door on the right hand side of the picture:

maybe i'm just a big baby, but i jumped. i think it was the gargantuan shadow on the wall, from the single lightbulb on the light fitting - it was definitely a figure, arms raised. this is an ugly ass room. the claustrophobic paint colours, doors either side of you, and nonspecific shrine on the far wall, all make for quite an uncomfortable feeling. you're in, and you have to push on. no one inhabits these rooms, all of the people present are visitors, and you expect none of them - despite the noise, it feels like you're alone, as if the only other humans in the building might be scare actors in a haunted house.

each door is a guess and each room is different. this one is a waiting room, without patrons, yellow wallpaper and advertisements; this one is the entrance to a seedy club, smudged mirrors and posters; this one is empty; this one is the captain's bar on an old ship, windowless like the rest of them; this one is empty; this one is empty. whose sleeping bag is this? whose are these cigarette butts? who will turn off the bare lightbulbs when we leave? there are large chunks missing from the drywall in the corridor. there is no one around the corner. the door handle is a shotgun, bolted vertically against the wood.

everything here is so old, like a domestic museum; there is writing everywhere. most of it is in a language you can't read.

the deliverance and the patience dunks your head into a different world, one without people, and then pulls you back out the moment you step out the peeling wooden door of the exit, leaving you feeling like you've invaded someone else's domain.

here's some more:

i, imposter (the darkroom) - in this picture above, you can walk into that tunnel! when we visited, my brother made the apt comparison of a slaughterhouse - animals are sometimes herded through curved corridors to prevent them from panicking when seeing the full road ahead. the door at the end is unlocked, but shut, and heavy - when you crack it open, the deep red light that emits from the room inside is less than reassuring. it's a darkroom - only red safety lights are lit, it's all factory-like with sinks and paper hung up to dry. it doesn't feel unlike a secret lair.

i am going to go to bed, and i don't have the energy to fully go into the amnesiacs - they are a fictional biker gang of Nelson's, made up of gulf war veterans, each having chunks of their memory lost to PTSD. he shows us their belongings, their home, their 'hide', their mindscapes, all through found object sculptures, in typical Mike Nelson fashion. they are more like approximations - a motorbike's handlebars are a pair of horns. more importantly, like any other work of his, they are infused with memory. this constant presence of someone, sometimes the artist, usually the character, sometimes the people who owned these objects before him.

back to kaisa, this is what i think she would be drawn to in his art. this total immersive experience, this otherworldly material. in this au, i think she loves art that is: transportative, textural, moody, surreal, unsettling, nostalgic, immersive.

i might do johanna if i have the energy. if you genuinely read to the end, i dont believe you!! thank you so much!! i'm sorry i went on for so long! i am a freak nerd about this! i'm sorry if you hate conceptual art. i hope i have convinced you to hate it less? i love you. if you have any ideas/corrections/anything at all send me a message or a comment or an ask. have a great day!!

#kaisa #hilda the series #hilda netflix #art school au #au #ask