The last two blog posts have been focused on one of the oldest methods for creating images: the wet plate collodion process. Although this process was discovered in the 19th century, there are many contemporary photographers who are bringing this process back into style, so to speak. In keeping with this theme, I wanted to share a section of Blur Magazine's website, titled "Wet Plate" that shares the works of photographers working in this antique process. There are a slew of other photographers listed on this site, like David Emitt Adams. In Emitt Adams' piece titled 36 Exposures, he notes:
In the piece 36 Exposures, I used 35mm film canisters discarded by my “Introduction to Photography” students as the metal base to hold their collodion tintype portraits. I employed this labor-intensive, 19th-century photographic process to make the students’ portraits on the very film canisters that played a crucial role in their initial understanding of photography. The entire series is housed in a mahogany display case, which I designed and built to reference and reinterpret the history of photographic display. The canisters and the process I used in this piece speak of my fascination with the evolving nature of photography, representation, and culture. (Emitt Adams, web).Be sure to check out Blur Magazine's "Wet Plate" to learn more about other photographers working in this field!
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| Emitt Adams, David, 36 Exposures, ND. |
"Wet Plate." Blur Magazine. Blur Magazine, n.d. Web. 3 Dec. 2015.
Emitt Adams, David. "36 Exposures." N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Dec. 2015.