John Herschel was the developer of the "cyanotype" process in 1842 used even today in alternative photographic printing. Today Cidne Hart (wife of Kevin Hass) a proponent of the printing process shared her techniques and work with f8. Below is a narrative from Cidne and a link to the process “Cidne Hart presented a program on the cyanotype process--one of the early photographic processes developed in 1842 by John Herschel. The process today is largely the same, but we are now able to print film negatives on desktop printers using digital files instead of the original glass plates or camera negatives. She showed prints she had made and examples of film negatives printed on inkjet and laser printers. She shared paper she had coated with anyone who wanted to try it at home. Here is a very helpful and extensive website on all the alternative processes:” http://www.alternativephotography.com Below are examples of Cidne's work Finally, we chatted about some New York Times articles and photo essays The first was from Teju Cole and his essay on why so many travel snapshots look the same..it appears that it may not be our collective fault Teju Cole: Take Picture Here The second was a great photo essay with "uncanny" views of NYC by John Chiara and comment by Luc Sante....writer and critic John Chiara: Uncanny City Finally we noted an article on "Measuring Aesthetics" and its potential importance for artists...we'll discuss this in some future f8 meeting. Unfortunately could not locate link
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Today John demo'd a number of iPhone apps for f8. There is no way I can narrate the entire session. The best I can do is list the apps that he demonstrated. I might point out there were two "Pro" camera apps that were similar... "ProCam" and "ProCamera" Below is the list that John reviewed ProCam Procamera Diptic Union Below are other sites related to iPhoneography www.ippawards.com iphonephotographyschool.com http://iphoneographycentral.com http://lenscratch.com We also had a visitor today Joe's son Will who seemed to catch on quickly to using these apps on his iPad
Robert Welkie revisited f8 and discussed again his photographic series "Anthroposcenic." The narrative below is from Robert.... "The title of this work is Anthroposcenic. It is a play on words with a fairly new word and an old word. The old word is scenic. The new word is Anthropocene. The British pronounce it An Throp a Scene. Our old geologic epoch is the Holocene. The Holocene had the benefit of about 12,000 years of stable climate since the ice age. The Anthropocene will likely have a different flavor. We are now in a period when human influence on the planet is an important geological consideration. My work is an effort to find the beauty in the transition. It is divided into four families of images. American Anthropocene, Animals, Fire, and Clouds. They all contribute separately to the understanding of the transition. It is my hope that the four families working together will provide a larger visual framework for seeing the transition." His website: www.robertwelkie.com Chris Kleine also showed some photos from his recent trip to Golden Butte National Park...there is no narrative with the pictures beow
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