Tag: silver

Sean Rohde’s darkroom experiments

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Chris by Sean Rohde

Photographer Sean Rohde dug up and scanned a bunch of his darkroom experiments from the late 80s and early 90s. There are heaps of images along with explanations of how each was done. He writes:

Way back when, from 1988 to around 1992, I actually had a full darkroom. I currently just develop my own film and scan the negs onto my computer. That’s fine for straight "prints", and photoshop does have some nice controls that are difficult to duplicate with an enlarger. On the other hand, there are tons of things I can do in the darkroom that are impossible to replicate on the computer…

Continue reading and see lots of images at Rohdes’ blog, moominstuff. You can check out more of his excellent experimental and toy camera photography in his Flickr photostream.

Group show: "Out of the Darkness: The Contemporary Revival of Early Photography"

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This exhibition features the work of contemporary photographers who choose to have direct contact with the photographic process in its most basic chemical and alchemical form—instead of working with current digital technology, these photographers have chosen to revive archaic 19th century techniques.

Artists include Chuck Close, Sally Mann, Jerry Spangnoli, Christopher Bucklow and Abelardo Morell.

The show runs from Thursday, 26 October, 2006 – Thursday, 7 December, 2006 at the University of Central Florida Art Gallery, Orlando, FL, US. The gallery is open 9:00am–4:00pm, Monday through Friday.

More info at the gallery’s Web site.

Via Pinhole Visions

Paul Butzi on silver vs inkjet BW printing

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Paul Butzi writes in The Online Photographer:

Different isn’t synonymous with bad. Instead of viewing every difference between silver-based photography and digital photography as weaknesses in the new technology, it’s far more productive as artists to pick up the new technology and ask ourselves, “Where can I go with this that I couldn’t go before?” The best path forward isn’t to refuse to pick up digital cameras until the results are exactly like those we get with film, and it isn’t to mindlessly adopt the new technology and forget the lessons of the past, either. The best path forward is to pick up the new technology, embrace its different strengths and weaknesses, and extend our hard won knowledge rather than discard it…

Someone talking sanely about silver vs. digital? Am I dreaming?

The sanity continues at The Online Photographer