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Tom Fels (b. 1946)
Catalpa, 2014
unique cyanotype triptych
each signed, titled and dated in pencil (verso)
each image/sheet approximately: 35 ¾ x 23 ¾ in. (90.8 x 60.4 cm.)
Catalpa, 2014
unique cyanotype triptych
each signed, titled and dated in pencil (verso)
each image/sheet approximately: 35 ¾ x 23 ¾ in. (90.8 x 60.4 cm.)
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Further details
A historian of photography and its early processes, Tom Fels makes large-format cyanotypes in the footsteps of those produced in 1843 by Anna Atkins for her historic publication, Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions. Produced using only light and sensitised paper, the magnetic blue of the cyanotype process traces in silhouette the subject of this image, a tree in his back garden, leaving an overall abstract impression. Made directly, without camera or intermediary negative, works such as this triptych are unique.
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