Alternative Processes

A modern building made of dark and light horizontal stripes. There is a reflection of a tree in an area with vertical stripes. The image is overall bluish and beige.

CMA, September 19, 2013

Digital Negative
Gum Bichromate over Cyanotype
7.5" x 5.5"

Vertical picture of the leaves of a fern with dark dots (the spores) along them. Overall the image is greenish-yellow.

Fern

Digital Pinhole, Digital Negative
Sepia Toned Silver Gelatin Print
4.75" x 7.75"

Close up of a lily with its stamens exposed. It throws a shadow on the wall behind. Overall the image is soft beige.

Shadowed

Digital Negative
Lith Print
6.75" x 9.75"

Two vertical pictures, each with gold-colored leaf-shaped earrings. The one on the left has a leaf in the upper left and lower right corners, with the ends pointing to the center; the one on the right has both leaves on the bottom of the frame, leaning against each other.

Falling Leaves

Instant Film Photograms
Each 3" x 4"

White square misshapen grid on blue, green, and red layers that are distorted. It sits on a white rectangle on a larger black rectangle.

Warp

Separate color Emulsion Lifts
Cardstock
5" x 4.5"

A reddish frame with a dark insert. The insert has two photographs of a couple, one in the upper right (the man and woman are cuddling) and the other in the lower left (the man and woman are posing). In the space between is a dark gray shadow of the woman, looking away from both couple pictures.

In the Morning Dark

Emulsion Lifts, Vintage Photos
Wooden Frame
10.125" x 8.125"

Distressed black and white close-up image of a person grabbing their head. Their short hair comes through their fingers.

Hand

Release Paper Inkjet Transfer
9.75" x 6.75"

A white clapboard covered building with a blue and red sign that reads Hotel. There is a car parked on the street. Overall the image is grayish and distressed.

Deluxe Hotel Redux

Vintage Slide on Instant Film
Release Paper Inkjet Transfer
7.25" x 6"

Still life close-up on three pears. Mottled reddish and yellow overall soft color.

Pears

Three Digital Negatives
Tri-color Gum Bichromate
7.5" x 5.5"

Close-up of a calla lily flower from the side. There is a mottled background. Overall color is a mottled peach and black.

Calla

Digital Negative
Lith Printing
4" x 4"

This project is a survey of Alternative Processes. AltPro encompasses a wide range of photographic methods, including historic processes such as cyanotype and gum bichromate; vintage processes such as instant film (aka Polaroid or Fuji) emulsion lifts and transfers, and lith printing; and modern processes such as digital negatives, inkjet transfers, and digital pinhole. There are as many AltPro methods as there are practitioners.

See A New Gallery for more information.

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