The Art of the PhotoArchive published

University Press Antwerp (UPA) has published The Art of the PhotoArchive: 170 Years of Photography and Heritage. The book represents a collaboration between Roger Kockaerts, founder of Atelier pH 7, and art historian Johan Swinnen and contains many of the photographs exhibited last year at the Free University of Brussels.

The Art of the PhotoArchive's main aim is to assist in identifying types of photographs and the illustrations range from 19th century to contemporary photographs.

Gingko Photogram Lab Coat may be seen on page 291.

roots with dirt clumps in 16 pieces

Here is the second of my large scale pieces, Roots with Dirt Clumps in 16 Pieces. The issue of justifying this scale is resolved for me since I now notice the clumps of soil that I didn't see while preparing the negative. I am optimistic I can create at least 3 more large scale pieces, including a light ground one, for the Sinclair Exhibit in October.

tree bark in fourteen pieces as my height

Here is the start of new work. It remains in Vandyke brown but the scale of the piece and construction hopefully draw (even) more attention to the physical nature of the print.

Tree Bark in Fourteen Pieces as My Height is composed of 14 pieces of 9x7 inch vandyke brown prints pieced together with map pins. It actually is the same height (give or take a half inch) as me.

This will be one of at least four new large scale pieces to be shown at Sinclair College's "Works on Paper" gallery starting in early October. In fact the scale of the pieces is specific to the new display space on the fourth floor of building 13.

lost in translation

I've been wanting to do this for some time, namely look at an image at its earliest stage and compare it to one nearing completion. The left represents the Vandyke Brown print of the scanned botanical sample on the right.

For me it answers a couple of questions. The first being "why go through all the labor of printing this out as a Vandyke Brown print on an unusual paper?" The second question is somewhat related to the first question, "what remains of the original subject?"