[Digital photo book]
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Photograph
[Digital photo book]
2016
Electronic display
Overall: 4 7/8 × 7 1/2 in. (12.4 × 19.1 cm)
Gift of Roman Road Gallery, 2018
2018.0041.0003
Inscriptions [no inscrption]
TextIn his recent work, Antony Cairns employs a mash-up of historical photographic procedures: he exposes 35mm film negatives, partially develops and solarizes them (techniques native to gelatin silver processing), and then makes contact prints (common to salted paper and albumen silver printing) on metal (as daguerreotypes and tintypes are) or paper. He then transposes the photographs, which portray urban spaces haunted by the past and pregnant with hidden meaning, onto recycled e-readers. The electronically inked screens encapsulated in the final “totems” emphasize digital photography’s dependence on apparatuses with mass and volume to make its images visible.
