Description this is a cameraless photograph of a pair of sewing scissors. it is made using a hand coated 5x7' glass plate i coated myself. i placed the scissors on the glass plate and used my enlarger for a light source. the image was processed in a few different developers, one was a coffee developer, another was a olde timey print developer i use, and the last was a special reversal developer used to make positive images using liquid emulsions. it is scanned. the dots, marks, lines, uneven edge, emulsion lift - frilling- are all part of the process.
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.