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Polaroid equipment overview!
The Polaroid transfer, Polaroid SX-70 and Polaroid Image Lift techniques
are both easy and fun - and an excellent processes both for beginners
and experienced photographers - once you've figured out what equipment
to use and where to find it. Here's a few good starting points.
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Equipment
overview for the Polaroid processes: |
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 Polaroid
Emulsion Lift equipment - Ivy Bigbee talks about how she works.
Polaroid
Image transfer equipment 1 - Gary Auerbach lets us in on his
secrets.
Polaroid
Image transfer equipment 2 - Wendy Cook and how she works.
Polaroid
SX-70 equipment - Renata Ratajczyk talks us through the Time
Zero process.
The
end of SX-70 manipulations? - Polaroid have had problems with
their Time Zero film which seems to have resulted in stopping production
all together. What is there to do?
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Work
for sale by ARTISTS Working in the Polaroid Processes: |
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Palma
Allen
Available to buy from 125 USD (member discount)
and 225 USD for non-members. |
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Robert
Lawhead
Available to buy for 35 USD. |
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Tina
Maas
Available to buy here from 29 USD. |
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NEW
ARTISTS in November: |
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Kate
Mocak
Kate is a slovakian artist working in cyanotypes,
gum bichromates and vandykes. |
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Lynette
Zeeng
Our first Australian artist is a practicing photographer and
teacher of Polaroid techniques from Melbourne. |
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Hans
van Erp
Hans is a fine art photographer from the Netherlands.
He shows us his bromoils, cyanotypes and gum bichromates. |
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Workshops
November 2005 |
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4-6 Nov. |
Gum Bichromate Over Platinum
Printing
Workshop intended for platinum printers with some experience who
want to stretch the medium into a new realm. Adding layers of gum
bichromate over a platinum print results in a final print with added
depth, richness and endless possibilities of color to enhance the
emotional impact of the image. Topics include paper preparation,
preshrinking, sizing and acid treatment, the gum bichromate process,
and the mixing of chemistry and watercolor pigments. Instructor:
Kerik Kouklis, Center for Alternative and Historical Processes,
412 Broadway, 3rd floor, NYC 10013. Phone: 212.929.4330. Website. |
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5-6 Nov.
(2 days) |
Cyanotypes and Vandyke Prints
from Digital Negatives
Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California, USA
Taught by Mary K. Shisler. Covers both cyanotypes and Vandyke prints.
The first day is spent in Kala's Electronic Media Center creating
the negatives. Then we experiment with the two media combine them
in the beautiful Blue Vandyke. Email. |
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13 Nov. |
Lighting for 3 Dimensional
Objects
New Jersey Center for Visual Arts. 10am-4pm (bring lunch or snack)
The workshop is designed for those who want to gain control over
the most important element of every medium – lighting.
Students will be led through a step-by-step process of creating
a lighting set up of their own with objects or sculptures that they
have brought to work with for the day. The instructor will
stress the thinking behind what is being done with the arrangement
of subject matter and the reasons for setting up the lighting in
a simple way. Call 908-273-9121 for more info. |
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