| Photography 1957-1985 |
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Smoke on Glass
Sizes vary, on 11 x 14 inch paper, 1965
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| This image is enlarged from a synthetic negative made from soot. The process began with Frederick Sommer making a drawing in aluminum foil, which was then held over a smoking candle to collect soot. The soot-covered drawing was transferred, like a relief print, to a piece of grease-coated glass. Sommer over the years sooted either, and even both, the convex and concave sides of foil drawings to take advantage of all the possibilities. |
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