This was so cool for me. Yesterday I had the honor of being photographed by master photographer Jill Enfield. She uses the same method that was used to take portraits of soldiers back in the civil war. The process is called Wet Collodion, and involves carrying around a portable darkroom. After the photo is taken, Jill instantly uses a special mix of chemicals to develop the photo on a piece of glass.
Recently she’s used this method in a series called The New Immigrants, where she takes portraits of recent immigrants to the United States. She explains: “Using this method to document recent immigrants helps to show that they are no less brave than those who came over on boats 150 years ago.”
Check out this short, time-lapse video of Jill in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgDtAa-6Zvs
As computers have pervaded deep into our daily lives, our culture has embraced them. It has taken time, but we are now getting comfortable enough with computing that we can see past our own reflection in it. What’s new is that our prostheses have stopped chaffing and we can finally enjoy stretching them, and as we do, all the materials within our grasp are rendered anew.
The BMC 1100
German Nazi Sniper Tamed with a Trumpet (by plinorph)
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