From the course: Photography: Advanced Composition
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Learning photography through analogue abstraction
From the course: Photography: Advanced Composition
Learning photography through analogue abstraction
- We're going to take a detour away from modern photography for a moment and go back in time to look at some work produced using what are now considered archaic photographic processes. Now of course in the case of photography, archaic isn't really that old. We're talking about techniques pioneered in the 19th and 20th centuries. Analog photography works of course by taking materials coded with light-sensitive emulsions and exposing them to light and then using various chemical processes to reveal the latent image that's captured in that emulsion. You can use a camera to expose an image or you can simply work directly with the photographic material itself. This is a work by Katie Hudson, a student at the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute who working under the instruction of photographer David Emitt Adams created this piece by placing ripped pieces of tape on a piece of photographic paper. The tape in turn possibly had markings on it with some sort of resistant material. I didn't see her…
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