Monthly Archives: September 2012
Discussion Topic: Can an App be Art?
The photographer Edward Burtynsky is renowned for his photographs of “industrial ugliness.” Recently, he released a version of his artbook Oil as an app. The photographs highlight the production and the use of oil, from the its extraction to the … Continue reading
Old Processes
The wet-plate process is indeed the magical process of photography. This process is what dedicated photographers used back in the nineteenth century and what passionate photographers today, in my opinion wouldn’t mind going back to. I think people in today’s … Continue reading
Old Processes, New Advertising
I think it is well known for artist to recreate art work that has been famous and known throughout the entire world in the past. I can relate to that because, most students i think have taken art class and … Continue reading
Old Processes, New Advertising
Wet -plate collodion is a photographic process that basically dates back to the birth of photography. It became very famous during the Civil War. According to , A Haunting Old Photographic Process Reappears, this process requires a large-format camera, a … Continue reading
Old Processes, New Advertising: David B.
The wet-plate process (originally called the Wet Collodion Process) was developed in 1848, by early pioneer Frederick Scott Archer. This form of photography uses glass plates to produce photographic negatives. The glass plate must remain wet the entire time, hence the term “wet-plate process”. … Continue reading
Discussion Topic: Old Processes, New Advertising Response
The wet plate collodion is a processes that we never got to experience first handed, I think that one of the reasons why photographers are starting to turn to it. It gives the photographer the feeling that they are in … Continue reading
Old Processes; New Advertising.
I think it’s great that photographers are using old processes in their current works. Every so often photography needs something different, something refreshing. Most photographers today rely on digital photography and it’s impressive that other photographers are going back to … Continue reading
Old Processes… why?
Photographs, made long ago, are silent testimonies of events distant from us in time and comprehension of captured reality. Even though they are not as strange to us as paintings or narratives they still are veiled from us by inability … Continue reading
Discussion Topic Response: Old Processes, New Advertising
Artists, regardless of their chosen medium, are always looking for inspiration and many times it’s found by looking back. Either through the past work of other artists or, as in this case, by reviving old techniques. I think the main … Continue reading
Discussion Topic: Old Processes, New Advertising
Many photographers today are reviving the photographic processes of the Civil War era. A California news article reports on several photographers in San Francisco who are producing photographs with the wet-plate process. Even Louis Vuitton highlights wet-plate photography in his … Continue reading
