Anyway the other night I caught the end of an English programme on television
called "Drop the Dead Donkey", and blow me down if I didn't see two cyanotypes
on their office walls! Absolutely no doubt about these pictures being
cyanotypes. One was perhaps (guessing here from a rather small TV screen) 16" x
20" or half imperial perhaps, featured the emulsion application brush strokes
and pictured architecture as abstract modernist shapes. Quite dynamic. The
other image was a contained arrangement of perhaps 6 or 8 negatives on a large
sheet. Too small to see what the images were of.
Got quite a surprise. Alterntive processes has made it on TV!
(Sorry to all those in the USA who haven't heard of this series, unless it has
been sold to PBS, but it's quite popular here in a small cult circle.)
I'm always on the lookout for uses of photography on film and TV, has anyone
else sighted alternative processes on film sets? Or uses of cameras?
Just a thought.
Catherine Rogers