September 22

most of my scanned negatives that i plan on printing out.

I am planning on organizing them further in a sequence, some of them are sequenced already for the final print on sunday.

artist of interest:

Christina Z. Anderson

Anderson describes her work to be focused around "contemporary social landscape rendered in historic photographic processes." She has many different broad concepts implemented in her work as well as use of a variety of mixed materials. She pushes emphasis on the process aspect of her artwork and the unique qualities that can only be produced once in the processes she works in. The unpredictablitiy of the transformation of her photography while working in the darkroom, and adding imagery to the negative, or destruction of the negative, keeps the artwork in the present moment of when it was being constructed.

She not only has photography work, but also has written three books about alternative processes, experimenting with photography, and the process of gum printing. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography at Montana State University, where her focus lies within experimental photography and the process with gelatin silver mordancage.

I came across her while viewing her information on distressing negatives, in the site she listed four ways to distress a film negative by burning, scratching, distressing and bleaching. I really liked the images that showed a burned and a scratched negative. So I looked her up to see if she had artwork of her own on a website. I came across her work, the gelatin mordancage prints were really stunning, but I also found her gum printing images were also very fascinating. I've seen imagery being drawn on, but not anything like a comic book strip being intergrated into a photo. This is something I'd like to look further in to, to see if its possibly anything I could try to do on my own.

on the left: burned and distressed negative and the right: anderson's gum print entitled Left Behind