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print this pageA Practical Introduction to Mordançage
Workshop: Alex Krajkowski
Friday, September 13 - 9:00AM to 12:00PM
Bunnell 118
Over the last several years, I have worked heavily with the Mordançage process, rediscovered by Jean-Paul Sudre in the 1960s, creating a large body of work through manipulation of this process, and teaching it in several classes on historical and alternative photographic processes. Using a combination of chemicals, this process bleaches out a fiber-based gelatin silver print, and then causes the darkest tones in the piece to lift off of the page, forming delicate veil structures, which can be manipulated to artistic effect.
Mordançage is a difficult and toxic process, but one that allows for a great range of creativity, as well a chance to escape the fairly rigorously controlled photographic process. The deconstructive nature of this process allows artists to explore the photographic print as an object as well, not just as a flat image, and brings the substrate of the piece into a larger conversation about photography as a medium. My workshop will combine a brief slide lecture to explain the history of the process as well as its uses in contemporary photography, followed by a hands-on workshop, in which participants can bring fiber prints and work through the Mordançage process, understanding how temperature, dilution, water pressure, and redevelopment can affect the final image.
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