Teaching Winter Session, Week 5
Nancy Breslin is teaching alternative photographic processes at the Uni. Here we can follow her five week course. Week five and the course is finished.
Nancy Breslin
Teaching Winter Session, Week 4
Nancy Breslin is teaching alternative photographic processes at the Uni. Here we can follow her five week course. Week four and the finishing line is approaching.
Teaching Winter Session, Week 3
Nancy Breslin is teaching alternative photographic processes at the Uni. Here we can follow her five week course. Week three had students working with Holgas, cyanotypes and vandyke browns.
Teaching Winter Session, Week 2
Nancy Breslin is teaching alternative photographic processes at the Uni. Here we can follow her five week course. Week two is a bit smoother than week one.
Teaching Winter Session, Week 1
Nancy Breslin is teaching alternative photographic processes at the Uni. Here we can follow her five week course.
A Perfect Day (Except for the Clouds)
Nancy Breslin enjoys teaching the cyanotype process, taking a step back from the “easy” digital photos.
Entrance through the gift shop?
Nancy Breslin goes to Ireland and London and finds pinholes in the gallery shop rather than on the exhibition wall.
Another Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day
Nancy Breslin reports from Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day 2011.
An app for that… while a darkroom survives
Nancy Breslin continues Peter J. Blackburn’s discussion on the disappearance of the traditional darkroom.
The lives of struggling artists
Nancy Breslin’s take on Patti Smith’s memoir “Just Kids” and her time with Robert Mapplethorpe.
Pictorialists Then and Now
Nancy Breslin goes to the Phillips Collection to see “TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945”.
Food/Art in Los Angeles
I just got back from a trip to Los Angeles. We spent some time seeing friends and shopping (my 18 year old daughter was with us), taking pictures (I shot 6 rolls each with my Zero 2000 pinhole camera and my Diana+), but also managed to see some art.
A worldwide community
In theory alternative photography is “low tech,” although one thing I like about it is the fluidity between high and low. I might shoot on film with a plastic camera, then scan the negative so I can create an enlarged digital negative, then print in gum over cyanotype. Whatever works…
Gallery Hopping in New York
Nancy Breslin spent a day this week visiting photo exhibits in Chelsea (NYC).
A Worldwide Gallery of Pinhole Photos
Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day was about 2 weeks ago, and Nancy Breslin contributed to the gallery, she was the 3002nd person to do so, and more followed.
April 25 2010 is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day
Pinhole photography may or may not fit into the general category of “alternative photography,” depending on how the latter is defined, but for me pinhole shares the creativity, uniqueness, and unpredictable nature of many alt processes.
The alternative niche
Recently the New York Times ran an article titled “For Photographers, the Image of a Shrinking Path” In a nutshell, the writer said that the combination of smarter, less expensive digital cameras, photosharing sites such as flickr, and fewer magazine pages have resulted in a very tough market for commercial photographers.
They did the impossible!
About a year and a half ago some Polaroid fans leased a closed instant film plant in Enschede (Netherlands), after Polaroid had first announced bankruptcy and then stopped making their much loved products. Named “The Impossible Project,” this group had the seemingly quixotic goal of reformulating and manufacturing instant film.
Gertrude Kasebier – an inspiration
Nancy Breslin is inspired by the Stieglitz’s photographer Gertrude Kasebier.