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CLAIRE SEIDL BLACK & WHITE & RED Please click images above for full view.
When I began making black and white photographs a decade ago, I continued
also to paint, but I more or less stopped drawing and painting on paper. It
had been very interesting to see the connections between my (abstract)
painting and my photography and being curious, I started drawing again,
partly because I missed it but also to see what effects my photography might
have on that medium. For me, shooting film and drawing both involve intense
looking; seeing light, dark and the gradations between them; composing;
changing focus; playing with visibility; distinguishing and obscuring
figure, ground and spacial relationships...often over a long time.
Printing in the darkroom, I alter negative and positive space, build up
contrast and tone, dodging (erasing), burning (saturating) and cropping. The
images in my drawings emerge in a similar way.
Claire Seidl resume
BLACK & WHITE & RED
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