Eleven collodion wet plate portraits made with color anodized aluminum mounted in a carefully spaced overlapping pattern standing off the black velvet background in a 18.5″ x 22.5″ frame
Eleven collodion wet plate portraits made with color anodized aluminum. The strobe light was so bright I didn’t want to photograph innocent subjects who might not be careful enough to avoid looking at the 5000 watt seconds of lights when they flashed. So I used the only subject who I trusted - my assistant Nick.
Thirty 3"x3" collodion wet-plate self-portrait photographs on color anodized trophy aluminum spaced 1/4" apart and standing 3/4" off the black background in a 21" x 24" frame.
Thirty collodion wet plate self portraits made with color anodized aluminum. The strobe light was so bright I didn't want to photograph innocent subjects who might not be careful enough to avoid looking at the 5000 watt seconds of lights when they flashed. So I used the only subject who is patient enough to sit for 30 portraits. The process required 3 days to complete all 30 plates.
4.25"x5.5" Collodion Wet-Plate on Glass and Aluminum, 8"x10" Silver-Gelatin prints, Digital Prints
MOMENTO is a collection of human experiences and the technological dreams triggered by our cameras. The cameras capture our experience in mere fractions of seconds, but the cameras themselves endure to reflect the technology and aspirations of their eras. The memories we connect to the cameras are significant, sentimental and cherished.
Original digital photos are available as limited edition digital pigment prints
If you could have a world named after you - what would it look like?
The Billiad is about what one man discovers when the dream becomes a reality. When this guy from New Jersey via Cincinnati, Schenectady, Aspen, and New York City does find his own world, locates his slice of heaven, that place with his very own name, what will the reality be? “Careful what you wish for.” If it really is MY world, would I want it to be like Westheimer Road in Houston, Texas?
The Billiad was my trip to that special place.
Original photographs are 35mm color negatives and all images have been scanned at high resolution and available as enlarged limited edition digital prints.
Bill’s salt prints of the Manual Project, the limited edition book MANUAL and tintypes of hands and cameras will be available at Charles Schwartz Ltd. – booth #317 at AIPAD – the Association of International Photography Art Dealers show at the Park Avenue Armory March 26-29 2009. The Armory is located at 643 Park …
Photographer and printer John Delaney has made some extraordinary portraits of the nomadic Kazakh people who have been displaced to western Mongolia. The prints are on exhibit at the Farmani Gallery in Brooklyn through February 28, 2009
For a glimpse of what it must be like to be a professional photographer at the Beijing 2008 Olympics see this VR panorama of the 100M taken by Finnish photographer Kari Kuukka Unfortunately most of his site is in Finnish, but the excellent pictures speak for themselves. Don’t you love the geeky photographers all dressed …
We can see some of katie cooke’s dreamy photographs on Slowlight: a gallery of pinhole photography by katie cooke “Using an empty box with no mechanics or lens, my photographs are a slow, quiet conversation between camera and subject. Each image is an act of faith, chemistry, & magic. ” Her dreamlike portraits reveal personalities …
