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Dialogic Image Maker: Joseph Mougel

From Silver Crystals to Landscape Pixels

Friday, November 02 - 2:00PM to 2:20PM
Student Center Ballroom B, University of Kentucky

By surveying virtual landscapes online, I capture views that reference the historical images and edit them to be projected directly from an iPad onto a glass plate. The resulting ambrotype is a hybrid object, incorporating the history of the collodion plate in imaging the West while utilizing new modes of exploring the world through web-based media. The photographers who first documented the Western landscape carried their darkroom with them throughout their journeys; artists of today are largely relieved of this burden, with portable cameras that easily capture and store thousands of images. By returning to the process-oriented methodologies of the past, I explore the sites from altitudes and perspectives that were previously unachievable. Photographers have always carried their equipment out into the field; now we have the freedom to bring the world into the darkroom.

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