An 1890's Portrait
Photomodifier: Anne Lord
Categories: Bookwork / Digital Books, Image-graphic Books, Photobooks
Reference no.:L/Lor.A/07.00 Place/Shelf:3BL
| Book title: | An 1890's Portrait |
| Year made: | 2007 |
| Place made: | Australia |
| Original: | Yes |
| Edition: (No. in Edition) |
10 (1) |
| Dimensions: | 120 x 165 |
| Binder: | stationery binding |
| Physical description: | wire comb binding with cloth wrap and perspex boards |
| Medium: | digitally enhanced photographs |
| Further information: | |
| "A photographic image taken about 1890 at Van Dyke Studios Hobart is of a woman seated in a classical portrait pose, a three quarter view of a face and shoulders. The hands and arms would most likely have been visible in early versions of this paper positive but can now only be imagined even when the image is enhanced digitally.
The positive was supposedly in the possession of my grandfather Percy Burton Phillipson Lyne who left Tasmania twice. The first time was in 1902 at the age of 27. The photograph probably remained in darkness until 2004. There is a correlation between the fading photograph and eroding metal, not in a literary sense but in the idea of the change process and how things fade or disintegrate with time. In particular the fading silver bromide image is disappearing and dependent on a trace of metal for its survival. An 1890’s portrait was produced for the exhibition Lessons in History Vol. 1." Anne Lord |
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| Photomodifier: | Anne Lord () |
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