practical masking: skeleton key to the “sandwich” making in a darkroom.
Missing are the thickness of the glass. Thinner for smaller (roll film) film. Bigger for sheet film (1/8 to 1/4″)
Diffusion and separation control UN-sharpness.
this was called the Standard Plate/platen. It, along with the Standard Light formed the Start Point, or First Set, in my darkroom.
To the part of practice I prefer. This is the stuff I call photography. The picture process.
Yamamoto Masao – a walkthrough of an exhibit (2019)
Galerie Albert Baumgarten
Yamamoto Masao started to photograph when he was 16 years old. He also studied painting but later chose gelatin silver print as his media. His first gallery show in the U.S. was in 1994 in San Francisco. In 1996 he had a solo exhibition at Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York
Born: 1983- // Yokota is part of a generation of young artists using photography in subversive new ways. His approach combines multiple rephotographing and printing, applying acid or flame to the end results, and making one-off prints and books from unexpected materials in staged public performances. Yokota is working out of, and pushing forward, a Japanese tradition of photobook-making that harks back to the visceral experimentation of the Provoke generation
“I don’t make work to express my feelings, it’s more like burning them“
the Zine form: “A self published limited edition zine, the publication marks one of Yokota’s earliest printed works. Experimental and distinct to his book-making process, SITE is a series of images which displays the artist’s photographic approach in exploring both memory and time. With SITE, Yokota chose to experiment with both photoshop and digital forms of image distortion.” https://www.shashasha.co/en/book/site
“His practice consists in constantly revisiting his own archive of personal photographs by adding layers of accidents, in order to metaphorically signify the superimposition of states of consciousness and memories. Of- ten referring to the principles of echo and reverb, Yokota also establishes links between visual and musical fields. One could say that he captures ‘noise’ in the broadest sens of the word.
DAISUKE YOKOTA — For Color Photographs, I worked with layered sheets of unused, large-format color film, experimenting with the development before scanning them. Generally, photography exists to record reality. The present development of technology ignores the material. Originally, needless to say, film negatives generated the image, and there was paper to stabilize it. In short, photography is a combination of images without the mass and the matter [film and paper]. For Color Photographs, I focused on this material side. https://purple.fr/magazine/ss-2016-issue-25/daisuke-yokota/
note the foils included… how they overlay.
finally, flashback, only because it makes those of the hobby board wonder…
very clear explanation that leaves those expecting their method to be the only method, mis-interpreting the steps
the first group of amateur, the most common type, understand only what they know how to do.
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