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print this pageVanishing From View The Forgotten Technique of Cliché-Verre in Photography
Daniel Hojnacki
Saturday, March 21 - 3:30PM to 4:30PM
Georgia 6
Cliché-verre falls into a category of camera-less photography originally used in combination with drawing to permanently "fix" an image onto a photosensitized surface. Each "negative" is created manually, drawn with any opaque or semi-opaque material upon a translucent substrate such as glass or celluloid, which then becomes a reproducible print when exposed by light over the photo paper.
Escaping simple classification, the use of cliché-verre has ebbed in and out of the history and vernacular of photography since the 1830's. Clichés-verre are housed both in the print and photography departments within institutions. Often times unknown to the collections that the works are actually photographic processes (historically salted paper prints and albumen prints). The technique continues to be shrouded in mystery, inhabiting a liminal space used by a subset of visionary artists whose cliché-verre work has rarely been seen by the general public.
"Vanishing From View The Forgotten Technique of Cliché-Verre in Photography" will offer an up to date contemporary re-examination of the cliché-verre solely through it's progressive use in photography. Detailing its robust history as one of the first collaborative interdisciplinary photographic techniques, to its contemporary evolution as a technical tool challenging contemporary concerns and issues today.
As a practitioner of the cliché-verre in my own artwork, my interests in this technique comes from a deeply personal and poetic place, which will resonate throughout the language of this presentation. This talk will provide exciting academic research while remaining accessible to the curious admirer of photography, educators, artists and historians alike.
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