chemigrams
What are chemigrams?
Chemigrams is a lot like photograms and cyanotypes because it does not need a camera to create an image.The founder of the chemigram is called Pierre Cordier, he combined painting and photography to create an image. He However, is not a photographer or an artist but a bit of both, in fact he distanced himself from the photography world hoping he would be welcomed in the art nation. But the painting world couldn't care less Pierre says. He made his first chemigram during military service in Germany, he had made it for a girl he met there named Erica as a birthday card. He took a piece of photographic paper and wrote on it using nail vanish, he then put it in a developing solution to make it black, he says "l watched as the nail vanish moved and changed form" and put it in the fixer solution. My chemigram: |
Here examples of modern day chemigrams and some of Pierre's, can you guess which ones are his?
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This is my first attempt at chemigrams, so this was just a little experiment with it. What I did was here was I dropped some paint which had chemical fixer then photographic paper (which was exposed to light) and then I dropped the paint on it, then exposed to more light after that I disobeyed the law of photography and put the paper into fixer and then developer instead of the other way round. Lastly I put the paper into the stopper to stop from changing any further. For my first try I think i should have put more effort and been more experimental with the chemigram and took risks.