New Work
2011 © Suzanne Révy
I spent some time a week or so ago working with Paul Sneyd and his staff at Panopticon Imaging to make color prints from film I shot last summer using a Holga. I learned to print color back in the pleistoscene era of the early 80's optically, and found it a long, tedious process with middling results. It came down to... not really liking the RC paper.
These days, of course, their are better choices for paper via inkjet printing, and I've decided to explore this world a bit. The scanner I have is adequate as my imaging needs have been for web presentation only, but in order to print in color, I expect it will require a certain investment in a scanner, printer and software, not to mention the time needed to learn it. If I'm happy with the results, then I may take the plunge, but for now, it seems a good idea to work with someone who knows there way around color printing.
I will say this... as I've worked through how I want these prints to look, it's made me think more deeply about the pictures I made, and about why I found myself using a toy camera (and color film!) for the first time without really knowing or understanding my impulse to use these materials or have any particular intention or direction to go. The resulting pictures feel more impressionistic than my other work... and the vignetting and ghosting have an ephemeral quality, and there's something about how color is rendered with plastic lenses, it all, quite simply, seems to have reflected my mood, and sense that things are fleeting.
Not sure where I'm going with this work, so I'll just keep going with it for now...
6 comments:
Thanks for the mention. It was a pleasure working with both you and your images. Look forward to seeing more. Paul
You're welcome Paul, I'm looking forward to making more prints with you. Have a good t-day, and I'll be in touch soon!
Cheers!
~Suzanne
I really like the look of these, even in the small 'picture of pictures.' It's interesting that you say they look more impressionistic. I agree somewhat (again hard to tell this small), but the Holga usually does that doesn't it? The composition is distinctly you though-- you should post some larger.
These prints are too big to scan, I still have to make some better scans to post them individually! I want to make work that is a little different than what I've done in the past, but it's hard to change it up completely!
Thanks for the comment.
~Suzanne
Never the same as a pure optical print, imho!
Long live film and custom optical c-printing.
Pang of guilt, Michael, for abandoning my own analog roots, I know!
I probably will have some of these made into C-prints (probably by someone who knows how to make them, since I never really had the patience to master it) to see how they look. My one concern with C-prints is how long they last. I know they can't touch my b/w work for longevity.
Thanks for your comment.
~Suzanne
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