Description this is photograph made from a hand coated glass plate .. i taught myself the craft of hand coating glass plates as a student in college 25+ years ago. i recently started to do this again, and expose the plates in a camera from the 1800s which was made for glass plate photography. the camera is called a 'cyclone #5 magazine camera' and can be loaded up with upto 12 glass plates. i processed the plates in a combination of coffee ( i roast the coffee myself ) and a very used print developer.this image is best viewed from a few steps back.
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.