MEMENTO - REFLECTED VANITIES_002

BEGINNING AT THE END… MEMENTO • REFLECTED VANITIES, showcases 22, 1 of 1 unique films of the analogue photo technique known as Wet Plate Collodion or Tin Types. Presented here are video captures of the fix sequence of the process where the image switches from negative to positive in real time. “Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.” Seneca FROM THE ETHER Wet Plate Collodion process, also known as Tin Types, is an analogue process perfected in circa 1863. It helped to popularize photography and photo portraits on a proportional scale similar to the advent of smartphones. The process involves pouring collodion (a syrupy solution of nitrocellulose in a mi...View all