Artist #7:

Artist: Anna Atkins
"Spiraea Aruncus (Tyrol)"
Cyanotype
1851-1854


Anna Atkins photography interested me only because we experimented with cyanotype and its process ourselves.  It was a fun way to capture art!  I love the process of creating these images because it is hands on and it creates amazing images.  This image i found interesting because it looks like my comforter (:

Artist #6

Artist: Adam Fuss

Butterfly from the series "My Ghost"

Daguerreotype
7 X 5 inches


Adam Fuss' work is known for its contemporary re- interpretation of photography’s earliest techniques, particularly the daguerreotype and the camera-less photogram. Fuss states that in "order for any photographic technique to work, it should be personalized and transfigured into a greater metaphor, engaging processes that take place in the natural world."  This particular picture captures this statement because the butterfly represents natural world, life, and beauty!  The metaphor that i get in this image is "beauty is within, beauty is transparent" because people in our culture see beauty "outside" of something or someone versus looking inside deep within.  His photography is unique and metaphoric.  (:

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