anything can be converted
I hate to say how many years ago but let’s just say 35 .. about 35 years ago I decided to do whatever I could to become a better printer.
Category: technique and style
how do you do that?
recent cyanotypes
if you have poked your head into my blog and website and / or instagram feed (@jnanian) you already know that I have been making cyanotypes for almost 20 years.
waxing paper negatives revisited
If you have been here before you might have read a post I made a long while ago where I described how to wax paper negatives (https://www.nanianphoto.com/blog/how-you-make-waxed-paper-negatives/ ) .. I
little books of cyanotypes
a little over a year ago I made a little book of cyanotypes. it has images on every page and the book is tiny. It’s a book whose images change
The overpasses
We pass this stretch of road every day. The road brings people on and off and down, and up and over. Concrete and metal and sometimes there is dead grass
I won’t show my bad results but..
The summer before COVID hit I was fortunate to meet up with a friend of mine who had a studio in Connecticut. He’s a retired Art Teacher, who is a
landscapes ?
The photographs taken as “landscape photographs” really are not what was in front of the camera at all. Well, they are what was in front of the camera but that’s
Xerox Internegatives
A few recent sun prints using inexpensive Xerox Transparancies. Usually when people make digital negatives they use fancy printers, spend hours and days profiling their printer and image to look
new year old post, maybe ..
well, its 2018 .. and i have gone back to my roots, sort of. for a handful of years i did my best to become a better printer by printing
peroxide reversals part 2
well, as seen by my last entry i was able to get it to work a couple of weeks ago so i attempted yesterday to do it again. so inbetween
peroxide based photographic reversals
im back at attempting to making direct postive reversals again. there have been a number of different ways to do these over the years, some use toxic chemistry ( sulfuric
back to the 1920s
ive traced my roots in photography, to the 1920s i think. my values seem to revolve around people like the dadaists and rusian constructavists and surrealists more than the new traditionalists
sun print
i realized last week the emulsion is sensitive enough to print through the photo paper if reversed. this was printed in full sun for about 1 hour
a few prints
this first prints were made by a digital overhead transparancy at my local copy shop originally it was a digital files taken in a snow storm at a local park.
chloro bromide emulsion #2
its been a while since i made the emulsion i wrote about here but that isn’t to say it hasnt been on my mind since a year ago january. i’ve been
