Description this is made using one of the earliest of known photographic processes. it is photographic paper left in the sun with a negative as a contact print. usually with photographic paper exposures are a few seconds long, this exposure was 7 hours. its called a sun print. the negative was created using a camera from the 1920s and vintage optics. the film was developed in a coffee based developer. this sun print and others are part of a long running series.
J Nanian, Warwick, RI Member Since November 2007 Artist Statement Hello, I am a working photographer, who uses a variety of processes to make photographs. Most work here originates as a sheet of paper, glass metal or plastic that is coated with light sensitive materials. I use coffee as a film and paper developer. Some of the photographs you see here are made using a 200 year old process and the images are photographs that are unstable. Scanning them is the only way to preserve them. Other images here are cyanotypes, a process invented in the 1840s that uses 2 iron based compounds that convert to a stable image when in the presence of ultra violet light.