26 Aug 2015

Photos by other machines

From Nights, 7:10 pm on 26 August 2015

Herbert Dobbie (New Zealand), Aspelenium Flaccidum (Chatham Islands), from New Zealand Ferns (148 Varieties), 1880, book illustrated with cyanotypes, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington.

Len Lye, Georgia O’Keeffe, 1947, gelatin silver photograph, Len Lye Foundation Collection, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre, New Plymouth.

Joyce Campbell (New Zealand), Griffith Park (from LA Bloom series), 2002, unique Ilfochrome photograph, Courtesy of McNamara Gallery, Whanganui .

Andrew Beck, Steel Bar Photogram (after Serra), 2011, steel bar with gelatin silver photograph, Courtesy of Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington.

Anne Noble, Spectregraph #3 (from Bee Wing Spectregraphs series), 2015, digital pigment photograph, Courtesy of McNamara Gallery, Whanganui.

The history of the camera-less photo, with Dr Geoffrey Batchen, professor of art history at Victoria University of Wellington.