Wednesday, 25 November 2009

A creative edge - Check out Chris Orwig's blog

Chris is a teacher of photography and author of the excellent 'Visual Poetry' - click on link to find out more.

Of this image Chris says, '....as certain film gets older it starts to degrade and fall apart, yet i find beauty in the decay that marks the passage of time. even more, the image above is a scan of something that you are supposed to discard...."

My pennyworth;

It reminds me of pseudo-solarization.

It also reminds me of the textual and depth feeling of daguerrrotype images – and as Chris says brings many new dimensions of meaning about time – and death and resurrection and ‘being saved’.

There is a wonderful section about a contemporary user of daguerrotype in the brilliant BBC DVD 'The Genius of Photography'

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