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Photography, Van Dyke Brown on Paper
Size: 13.8 W x 17.7 H x 0 D in
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Van Dyke Brown original prints made from wet plate collodion negatives, both processes rooted at the dawn of photography, on the second half of 19th century. Bones project is inspired by the ‘straight photography‘ movement of Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston and Ansel Adams. As a hiker, I often stumble on bones of animals belonging to my Appennines mountains, center Italy. I collect them and photograph them in my studio. My ‘Bones’ are still-life photos, taken at a close distance, on an overall blank or empty background, to show their shape and structure. The beauty of the subject itself makes the picture. Bones project begins with wetplate ambrotypes and negatives of 30×40 cm size (12×16″). Then I make prints with alternative processes such as cyanotype, Van Dyke Brown, salt paper, kallitype, and so on. This picture is printed on unseized Rosaspina paper, a museum-quality paper from the Italian paper mill Fabriano. That process renders a coarse grain surface, as rough as raw paper. The image looks printed inside the texture of the paper, as it is indeed. Every print made out of the same negative will be different one to another, because the chemicals are manually brushed on the sheet. Hence the final look will be always different. I state here ‘Original edition' because that's what definitely is, even if I will make more prints in the future out of the same negative. The prints undergo a specific archival processing, in this case gold toning, so they will be stable on time. Prints are finished with my press seal. The photos of this gallery are mounted on a floating black board which is not part of the project itself, so it is not shown in full on purpose. You can check the floating frame of my personal concept on my website.
Photography:Van Dyke Brown on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:13.8 W x 17.7 H x 0 D in
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Ready to Hang:No
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I took my first picture in 1984 and became full time professional photographer in 1992. Throughout the years I could make a wide range of experiences in the fields of commercial photography and photojournalism, as well as in the school system with my own courses and, later on, with my own school of photography. How did it all started? I was introduced to darkroom by photographer Attilio Di Bacco, an expert photographer of my town and, above all, a master darkroom printer. Attilio taught me all the photography tricks and trade secrets so I began my journey into the world of black and white photography. Throughout the nineties and the first years 2000 decade, while I was studying biology at the University of Florence, I began working with a commercial photography studio. My work for the studio would help me to become an expert in all professional photographic techniques. In the same years I was carrying out documentary photography. In 1996 I completed my most important reportage of the times: Albania’s Albanians. Later retitled ‘Albania Felix’ by ‘Sette’ magazine Italy’s first photo-editor Amilcare Ponchielli, it was acclaimed for being the first photo essay on Albania that showed the human side of the country. My Albania, a poor, yet happy country, ‘normal’ in its being different from our culture, went against the trends of photojournalism. Indeed, unlike the most hit photojournalistic subjects such as sad and dirty faces of street children, the despair of the poor and urban neglect, I regarded my subjects with impartial eyes. I was able to go beyond preconceived ideas and stereotypes and thus capture an unexpected reality. A testament to the effectiveness of such an approach to photojournalism came from Giovanna Calvenzi’s assessment, the photo-editor of Lo Specchio magazine and currently one of the top photo-editor in the world: ‘I see you are not a talker. You are not like your colleagues who go on and on about the stories behind their photos… - I replied: – If I had wanted to talk, I would have become a lawyer. I believe a good picture should speak on its own.’ - She bought my photo essay and I got my first commission with her. My photographs have been featured and republished in all Italian newspapers and magazines. They have also been featured in numerous magazines in the world. My series of photographs of Kosovo has been critically acclaimed worldwide for their originality.
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