Trent Parke

catharsis
Trent Parke

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Catharsis is the act of freeing ourselves of emotions or relieving emotional stress

through the process of experiencing something, often through art. 3200 ISO film has
strong contrast and grain, it lends itself well to capturing harsh, gritty subject matter.
The things that haunt our memories are often in this category. You will explore how
light and shadow can erase or hide memories through shooting a roll of 3200 ISO film.
 Peter Hoffman

destruction
Peter Hoffman
Matthew Brandt
Weegee
Eric Dallimore
Brent Losing
Sally Mann
Jacques Lowe
John Cage: Fire Prints

Process
 Matthew Brandt
Blood, Sweat, and
Tears series

Dennis. Salted paper print with his

mother's breast milk, 2007.

Belen. Salted paper print with her sweat,

2006.

Charles. Salted paper print with his mucus, 2007.

Brandt combines these salt-
richliquids
withdeveloperchemicals to make
light-sensitive photo paper.Each
everyday liquid reacts
differently.

Matthew Brandt
Brandt's "color wheel," where he tested how
different condiments and other liquids react to
the print process.
Matthew Brandt
Lakes and Reservoirs series

Color photographs that are

soaked in the specific lake
or reservoir water they
represent.

Prints are soaked for days

or weeks or even
months,and this process
impacts the layers of color
that comprise the image.
Brandt removes theprint
once it reaches its desired
look, which can range from
mostly representational
tocompletely abstract.
 Use one photograph that you have taken
representing a memory (good or bad) and
destroy, erase, distort, or hide the memory that it
represents through the manipulation of the
negative, print, or by some other means. You must
have something to physically present during our
critique on Thursday 2/9, showing the original
image and your alteration.
Trent Parke
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filters
overexposure
apps
blur
DIGITAL DESTRUCTION
PHOTOGRAPHIC DESTRUCTION
chemistry resolution
underexposure

subject matter
water
CONCEPTUAL DESTRUCTION melting
burning
time
point of view PHYSICAL DESTRUCTION
tearing
scratching
altered prints
Sculptural
Gwon Osang
Bert Simons
Abigail Reynolds
altered printing
altered developing
altered negative
digital alterations
4 PHOTO 1 altered printing
ALTERATIONS In the darkroom alter the photo paper
or the developing process in some way

1 altered or combined
negative
alter the negative itself by cutting it up or
combining with other negatives, make a print

1 digital alteration
choose a different image to alter digitally in
Photoshop (scanned film or digital)

1 digital combined negative

choose a different image to alter digitally by combining it
with other images in Photoshop (scanned film or digital)