Description
Lead Printmaker at Lux Darkroom, Constanza Isaza Martinez talks us through the process of creating a platinum print, inspired by the pictorialists.
Beginning in the 1880s, pictorialist photographers worked to create images that were as imaginative, expressive and technically considered as any painting or drawing.
The pictorialists became pioneers of the darkroom, transforming our understanding of photography and image making. They experimented with complicated developing and printing processes, manipulated their negatives, used many types of paper, and created prints with unique effects that were very hard to reproduce.
There wasn’t a single pictorialist style. What united them was the idea that photography could be expressive and that the photographer could make creative decisions at every stage of the process. Platinum printing was particularly well-suited to this approach as it offered an incredible range of subtle tones, from delicate highlights, through soft greys to deep shadows.
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