Shadows

In late 1991 I wanted to create a series of Black and White images of American everyday iconic products based on the idea of shadows and silhouettes.
I worked with the amazingly skilled and creative Fine - Art Printer and friend, the late Tony White in his Darkroom in the East End of London, to further post-produce these images after I had taken them on 5x4 black and white film in the studio. The complex darkroom technique involves carefully re-exposing the wet photographic paper with just enough light during the development process. Each print was a unique image achieving various degrees of solarization.
I suspect that the American, painter, photographer, writer and film-maker, Man Ray was the most well known exponent of the photograph using the Sabattier Effect or pseudo-solarisation, in his surrealist images created in the 1920’s and 30’s. The process was actually discovered in 1862 by Armand Sabatier.

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