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Two new photographic objects for the 21st century have been recently introduced to my experimental repertoire. First, the Zerogram, a color photogram that uses zero exposure in the light-tight color darkroom; it adds new nomenclature to the photogram’s collective histories, from the 19th century to the present Carey’s essay in: Mirrors of Chance: The Photograms of Ellen Carey.
My newest Polaroid 20 x 24 series sees Crush & Pull and/or Crush & Ding that highlights the dawn of photography, in the negative’s importance. Here, Carey simultaneously delivers a Polaroid photogram, a second new photographic object as Crush & Pull and/or Crush & Ding, for the first time.
“How is this picture made?” and “What is this a picture of?” are questions asked about my work. They address photography as process and the conundrum of an image without a picture ‘sign’ to read.
Light’s immateriality challenges its makers today, analog versus digital, doubles our challenges. “What is a 21st century photograph?” finds my answer in partnering 19th century photogram with 20th century Polaroid’s instant technology. “What do these two have in common?” and “Where do they overlap?” My answer sees the negative.
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Victoria and Albert Museum's photography collection
National Science and Media Museum
RPS Journal 1853-2012 online and searchable
Photographic History Research Centre, Leicester
Birkbeck History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné
British Photography. The Hyman Collection
The Press Photo History Project Mapping the photo agencies and photographers of Fleet Street and the UK
The correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot
Historic England Archive
UAL Photography and Photography and the Archive Research Centre
Royal Photographic Society's Historical Group
www.londonstereo.com London Stereoscopic Company / T. R. Williams
www.earlyphotography.co.uk British camera makers and companies
Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock.
National Portrait Gallery, London
http://www.freewebs.com/jb3d/
Alfred Seaman and the Photographic Convention
Frederick Scott Archer
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