Carrie Mae Weems, “Kitchen Table” series, 1990

Inkjet print on aluminum flashing. Golden Digital Grounds.

Another piece on aluminum.

Inkjet print on aluminum flashing. Lines are from horizontal sanding pattern.

“Talk about setting the bar!” – CS

Inspired by the work of Louis Daguerre and Nicéphore Niépce, this series of “digital daguerreotypes” was created to mimic the fragile quality and three-dimensional look of photographs made during the early 19th century. My portraits consist of a four-by-five inch sheet of Plexiglas that has been sanded and silver-leafed on one side. The portrait is then transferred to the blank side by use of the DASS transfer process. The resulting product is a reflective black-and-white photograph with the visual depth and physical weight of an antique daguerreotype or ambrotype.

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Billy Ennis.

More to come.

‘To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms that give that event its proper expression.’

~Henri Cartier-Bresson

Another new series. More to come.