B/W Film - Portfolio 1
These next couple of portfolios presents my favorite compositions
of my works with the fine art figure, using black and white films.
As time went on, I kept pondering different ways, to use, different
films, how to light, distort, diffuse, layer the look of an image, and
what developers and time and temperatures to use. The results of
this approach, did produce a fairly diverse looking body of works.
This approach was absolutely necessary to me, in order to keep
myself from feeling like I was in a rut, in what I was doing. You’ll
also note that some of these images, are available as works on
11”x14” photographic paper, while others, are only available as
digital prints. The reason for this is that not all the images from
my works with B/W film, did I end up actually printing in my old
wet lab - while some, I still have 11x14 silver gelatin prints
in stock.
Other works, I rediscovered as strong images, only once
I had scanned them, after I left the space that housed my last wet
lab. Because of this, those images listed as digital prints, were
later ‘ discoveries ’, that I re-introduced myself to, but now can
only be printed as digital prints, not as silver gelatin prints. This
is not a bad thing at all. But I wanted to explain the discrepancy,
in the image captions.
of my works with the fine art figure, using black and white films.
As time went on, I kept pondering different ways, to use, different
films, how to light, distort, diffuse, layer the look of an image, and
what developers and time and temperatures to use. The results of
this approach, did produce a fairly diverse looking body of works.
This approach was absolutely necessary to me, in order to keep
myself from feeling like I was in a rut, in what I was doing. You’ll
also note that some of these images, are available as works on
11”x14” photographic paper, while others, are only available as
digital prints. The reason for this is that not all the images from
my works with B/W film, did I end up actually printing in my old
wet lab - while some, I still have 11x14 silver gelatin prints
in stock.
Other works, I rediscovered as strong images, only once
I had scanned them, after I left the space that housed my last wet
lab. Because of this, those images listed as digital prints, were
later ‘ discoveries ’, that I re-introduced myself to, but now can
only be printed as digital prints, not as silver gelatin prints. This
is not a bad thing at all. But I wanted to explain the discrepancy,
in the image captions.