Photography: Taxonomy: Elemental —> Light —> Photography (Analog) photography is the place where light’s dual nature is synthesized on the surface of a material substrate. It exists both over time and as object. On the photographic plane the moment continues (potentially) to move across time; an index of an instant and the material history of […]
Cyanotype: Taxonomy: Elemental —> Light —> Photography —> Cyanotype The 4,000-year-old process involved in producing the dark blue of indigo is almost magical. Items transforms from yellow to blue within seconds. It is not unlike the cyanotype process invented by English scientist and astronomer Sir John Herschel in 1842. The Cyanotypes Process are among the […]
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Photograms: Taxonomy: Elemental —> Light —> Photography —> Photograms Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse […]
The making of PALOMAR October
Collaboration with Todd Bourret
D.U.M.B.O Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
2011
A for Alibi, De Appel, Amsterdam, 2007
Ideal City, Invisible Cities, Zamos / Potsdam, 2006
The Central Library, KUL, Leuven, 2005
These are the first digital photographs I ever took. I think the camera was made by Epson, or maybe Sony. In 1998, I set off on a fin de siècle reconstruction of Walter Benjamin’s Childhood in Berlin around 1900 in the new language of pixels. I didn’t make it very far. I would again photograph […]