Alternative processes

• Usually means a non-silver gelatine process
• Often called “historical processes”
• Can also include camera-less images that use light-sensitive materials

 

Experimental process

• Non-standard
• Using things in a different way to what it was designed for

 

Big cameras

• John Chiara – camera obscura
• Chris McCaw

 

Photograms

• No camera
• Light sensitive material, object on-top, exposed to light
• Anna Atkins
• Man Ray – “rayograph”
• Flattens, just shadow, not dimensions
• Laszlo Moholy-Nagy “enemy is convention”
• Christian Marclay “the clock” sanatype

 

Impermanent images

• Lumen Prints
• Jerry Burchfield
• Christine Elfman – anthrotypes
• Binh Dahn – chlorophyll prints