This gallery presents a technique called Combination Printing…an art form that photographer Oscar Gustave Rejlander perfected in the 1850’s. In my gallery presented, I work from my Barnacks Leica 1 and Leica 2 with 50mm lens. Since those cameras date to the 1930’s, so does my preferred film as I utlize Foma and Svema with essentially original emulsion plus the same flimsy negative.
I want my photographs to be as real to the 1930’s as possible. Although in my case, and in some of these photos…I have developed so scratches, noise and dust are included to add to the overall character and feel. All of these are best viewed on a large screen and when printed, I print at 20” × 26”. What is amazing about that is that while large, one has to remember that the negative I developed from is a 35mm negative which is 24mm x 36mm OR .94” x 1.41”. But it works!
From here on…..are images where I purposefully/selectively made with noise and scratches included. This was done via the actual development of film. No ‘Photoshopping’ on any image.