From: Nick Makris (nick@mcn.org)
Date: 09/13/03-04:53:19 PM Z
Steve, If your goal is to produce a print/mural that looks like a collage, I
would definitely stick with glossy prints, and cut and paste, and then
rephotograph on 8X10 or whatever works. Beyond that there are a million
ways to put them together digital and analog. Have you considered lith
film? probably not very good for masking parts of color negs. Best, n
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Bell" <sbell1@artic.edu>
To: "alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca"
<alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 3:39 PM
Subject: Negative Montages and Gender Politics, may be considered OT
> Hey Everyone,
>
> firstly i'd like to start off by apologizing for my inactivity on the list
> over the past few months. i feel like this is a great community, and i've
been
> neglecting it somewhat. i'm in school in chicago now, and i am presently
in a
> color photo class, so my time for alt processes has been minimal.
>
> so here's my question:
>
> i'm presently working on a photo project that is based on gender politics.
> i.e.- the idea that gender does not exist, or that it doesn't exist in
such
> black and white terms as 'boy' and 'girl' or 'man' and 'woman'. that there
are
> varying degrees of the characteristics that make up these definitions. so
what
> i plan to do with this is shoot people in the studio and out of the
studio,
> shoot people basically, and then cut up the negatives (most likely 120,
but
> very possibly i will use 4x5). so the idea is to cut up the negatives, and
> take different parts of peoples' bodies that give visual cues to gender,
and
> make negative montages or collages. i'm going to try to put these pieces
of
> negatives together to fit the size of an 8x10 piece of sheet film, and
then
> make mural size color prints.
>
> now what i planned to do was to sew the negatives together, which i will
do
> partially, as that is definitely a gender cue in and of itself, but i
don't
> want that to be my only technique for affixing the negatives to each
other.
> does anybody have any experience with this kind of thing? i remember
reading
> in the James book about a photographer who, towards the end of his career,
> took the tons of negatives that he had over the years and did a similar
thing,
> making 8x10 contact prints of negative collages. my copy of that book is
back
> in baltimore, so if anyone knows who that artist is, that would be a
helpful
> resource.
>
> any ideas?
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> Steve
>
>
>
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