Darkroom Challenge
Christian Schad
Christian schad was a german photography and painter born in the late 1800s. He was most famous for his german society portraits within the interwar period and was asociated with the new objectivity movements. Schad created pitchures that captured the mood of the period and that was what made him unique. After moving to Italy he had a turning point in his career and turned to paint in a realistic, sober style, emphasising mens isolation in society.
Laslzo Moholy-Nagy
Lanzo Moholy-Nagy focued on photograms by placing ordinary objects such as paintbrushes and his hand on the photogram paper exposing it tot the light and having an end project of a pictogram.This process was founded in the 1900th century and is concidered one of the most simple processes but extremely effective.His artwork may be concidered to incorporate or even transcend.Nagy also used his experiences through the years of living in hungry onto his photograms even through they were seen as very simple.
Jeff Cowen
Jeff Cowen was a american art photographer who mainly focused on dark room prints. and used anologue photography. He used varius methods to make his unique effects within the dark room such as mark-making, brushwork, and post darkroom mixed media. Jeff went on to teaching this methods to students and wanted to share his knowledge, he was also known for painterly silver gelatin photo murals and photo collages. After graduating he worked as an assistant for master American photographers Larry Clark from 1988 to 1999.
Adam Fuss
Adam Fuss relies on the most basic infrastructure of photography, he works with light sensitive objects and these include water droplets,smoke,flowers ect. He is known for his end results being breathtaking and reviving the laborious daguerreotype techniques. His work has been illustrated in the collections of art Museums and has been very sucsesful for how abstract it is. Not only does Fuss do photograms but also photographs in a abstract was with also painting being also extremely sucsesful.
Man Ray-
Man Ray is a visual American artist who impacted the surealist moments through history and worked in a variety of media through his time. He speant most of his time in Paris and concidered himslef a painter not a photographer, some of his most famous work includes L'Enigme d'Isidore Ducasse, and Objet à détruire, 1923. He took a lot of insperation from his suroundings and what was going on at the time. He worked within a dark room and took naturalist/abstract photography even though his main focus was as a painter.
My experiments
I wanted to experiment by making my photograms very abstract, I wanted to layer the images to make a form of 'collage'. I used medium format negatives, transparencies with found images, transparencies with text, buuble wrap, I used a transparent lip liner and other materials I wanted to arrange the different materials so that the composition was without any negative space. Id like to improve myphotograms by leaving some under the exposed light for longer and some of the picturgrams creating more of a collage effect.
Lumen prints-
To create our cyanotypes we needed to take two pictures one of a man made object with lines and another one being a natural for example of flowers or some plants growing.We then had to ensure we had those images and upload them to photos,we got hem into photoshop and upload the digital images to invert them.
Lumen Prints
Lumen prints are a print proceess where objects can be printed using photographic paper or light sensitive paper. To develop the prints UV light is needed. Uv light is sunlight or there is an artificial version is a UV lightbox similar to light found to a tanning machine. This is a photographic process as it uses light sencitive paper and a object so over time a print get printed onto the paper.Even though this might not be a type of photography that is most commonly used it is still classesd the same.These lumen prints are made as we picked different types of flowers and leaves and organised them onto photographic paper we left them by the window so lots of natural light could accsess them for a week,after a week we came back took the flowers off and got left with our finished lumen prints.The thing that went well with my print is that most of the flowers and all the leaves became clearly imprinted onto the light sensitive paper but something i could improve with my prints is be more careful when taking my flowers off as some of the prints got wiped off and left me with a white patch in the middle of my sheet.
Pin hole camera experiment
Martine Marie-Anne Chartrand is a photographer and artist who focuses in pinhole camera experiments.Martine Marie-Anne Chartrand has been doing photography as fine art since she was in college and attended the Ottawa School of Art in Canada. In art school, she would enrol in every photography class available and as often as possible her work would include some form of photography. She graduated from art school in 2002. Until this day she is always exploring different photography processes and ways of taking pictures. Martine Marie-Anne Chartrand loves the process part of photography, always bringing her some profound feeling of a magical moment when you see a photograph appear on a substrate. This feeling is important. Not opposed to digital photography, she does prefer the visual aspects and slow approach of analogue photography. She has been doing pinhole photography since school. Working with her handmade double 4×5 pinhole camera, she is documenting her local river. She loves sharing this pinhole magic in a classroom. In the last several years, Martine and her family have embarked on a zero-waste journey. The only logical step in this journey was to start doing a more ecological approach to her art-making. After doing dye and inks with natural foraged elements and kitchen scraps for a few years she discovered the anthotype process and has fallen in love with it. She is only a beginner in this alternative process but she plans on continuing on this path.