A Breath of Light: The Contemporary Platinum Print
Saturday, April 11, 1987 - Sunday, May 17, 1987
The show featured the work of twenty-six contemporary artists using the 19th century photographic process, the platinotype. In addition to more than eighty-five contemporary images, there were photographs from early masters of the medium, such as Peter Henry Emerson, Gertrude Kasebier, and Frederick Evans.
The platinotype was the process of choice for fine art photographers from the 1880s until the early part of the twentieth century. For various reasons, the process was abandoned in the 1930s. Its resurrection came at the hands of, among others, Irving Penn and George Tice, two of America's most well-known photographers.
The show featured works in the traditional genres of landscape, still life, and portrait, as well as images that cannot conveniently be categorized. Each photographer exploits the unique characteristics of the medium - its colors, textures, tonal range, and depth - to produce images that "make their views concrete, make substance of thought," according to Harold Simon, the curator of this exhibition.
The platinotype was the process of choice for fine art photographers from the 1880s until the early part of the twentieth century. For various reasons, the process was abandoned in the 1930s. Its resurrection came at the hands of, among others, Irving Penn and George Tice, two of America's most well-known photographers.
The show featured works in the traditional genres of landscape, still life, and portrait, as well as images that cannot conveniently be categorized. Each photographer exploits the unique characteristics of the medium - its colors, textures, tonal range, and depth - to produce images that "make their views concrete, make substance of thought," according to Harold Simon, the curator of this exhibition.
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