Word: darkroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bhutto but even indulging in a little slap-and-tickle as well. "It's been incredibly exciting," said Candy. "I didn't know you could have such a good time at a state dinner." It looked like the old story: Let's go into the darkroom and see what develops...
This gradually became clearer over the course of the medium's history. The first "art" photographs were conscious imitations of paintings. In 1880, Henry Peach Robinson and O.G. Rejlander tried to use multiple imagery--painstakingly assembled in the darkroom--to create "historical" pictures, portraying in one vast tableau all the heroes, villains, and valiant deeds of great events. They more or less failed, but for thirty years, the so-called "Photo-secession" or pictorialist school produced soft-focus, dreamy images with such titles as "Madonna with Child" or "Blessed Art Thou Among Women...
...beads and hair to their pictures, cut them up and stitch them together. They explore the artistic potential of old techniques--like gum bichromate, solarization, and cyanotype--and new chemical processes like polaroid and 3-M color. They borrow images from television and porno-magazines, create scenes in the darkroom which were never seen by a camera's eye and photosensitize anything they can get their hands on--including plexiglass, fur and linen. As Aaron Siskind, a documentary photographer whose work later became much more abstract, said, "...as the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis...
...largest number of artists represented in "Photography Unlimited" use darkroom effects such as distortion, unnatural color, and sandwiched transparencies to explore the realm of dreams and private fantasy. Photography, which has so long been used to mirror the physical world, is here being used to mirror the individual psyche. Many of the images thus created-especially Robert Heinecken's "Cliche Vary/Fetishism" and Ellen Land-Weber's large picture of a small child and a pink house being swallowed by vegetation--are striking and sophisticated images that haunt the viewer and remind him that there are few completely private thoughts. More...
Accepting Responsibility As a conscientious objector in the '60s, I was placed in a hospital darkroom developing X rays for two years, working just above minimum wage. For the same cause, a close friend spent six months in prison, leaving his wife and one-year-old child alone...