A Gallery of Posterizations A Gallery of Posterizations![[nonudes.htm]](../inonudes.gif)
Warning: Some of the
photographs
referenced from this page contain nudity or partial nudity
of women, but
none of the images are erotic. Most are suitible for family viewing and
discussion,
i.e., we're talking PG-13 here! Semi-nude means "No
Naughty
Bits", and Nude means you
might not want Mom (or the kids) to see it -- "Viewer Discretion Is Advised."One of my freshman photography courses at R.I.T. in 1968 introduced me to dye transfer, a process that requires three images of a subject (made through red, green, and blue filters) and creates a print of archival quality that will not fade even after exposure to direct sunlight for many years. Alas, Kodak has discontinued the manufacture of materials for this process. :-(
Being young and creative, I took this nearly obsolete technology and began creating color posterizations from black & white negatives (see How I Made Them). Since the prints used three dyes (cyan, magenta, and yellow), there were six variations that could be created for each image.
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Creating each image was a long, laborious process that started with making seven high contrast transparancies from the original negative, each at a different exposure. After multiple generations of combining positive and negative images, I had the three matrices , special images on film stock that had dye-absorbing gelatin that varied in thickness with the density of the image.
Making prints from the matrices could be done in a well-lit room, but it required seven trays of dyes, acid, and a running water supply, plus constant rocking of the trays to keep the matrices from absorbing the dye unevenly. Then there was the problem of registering the images (much like making silk-screen prints) as the three layers of dye were transferred to special paper.
Today, I can use image processing software to do the same job in minutes with just a few keystrokes, but there's no digital printing process that can make 16x20 inch prints with the brilliance of a dye transfer image, so it's just not as impressive as it was twenty-five years ago.
The following are scans from original prints made in the early 1970s. There's a story behind each one of these pictures, but I'll add them to this page some other day.
-=DAH=- 13-May-95
Here are some more posterizations of the Wood Nymph and other projects, including publicity photos … these are 4-tone (black, dark-grey, light-grey, & white) and 8-color GIF images that are referenced from other pages. I created some of them as "sanitized" versions to demonstrate "art" as an extreme case.
Most people, if asked to choose a category, would call them "art" rather than "pornography", and would have No Problem if their child saw it hanging on a wall when his elementary school class took a trip to the art gallery, any more than you'd be upset by them seeing a Rubin's nude even if they were under the age of puberty.
Most people have No Problem with having a National Geographic on the coffee table at home, even though they would never allow a Playboy magazine in the house. Never mind that there's female body parts exposed … "You see there, them's savages, and civiled people don't go runnin' around nekkid like that!" You see, National Geographic never prints caucasion breasts, but African and Asian tits are suitible for use as a lesson in morality.
Most people have No Problem with images like these artistic images of mine being accessible by children as freely as they can access the Playboy or National Geographic) HomePages on the World Wide Web.
Anywho, here's some more pictures that I took over 20 years ago, when I used to do this for a living. I call it art, and people paid me over $100.00 each for 16"x20" matted and framed prints. I used to call it My Vocation.
From the Daybooks and Photography Career page
that recounts my being ripped off by a customer.
(monochrome)
Another Wood Nymph image
(640x480x256 color) This file makes great wallpaper for
Windows™.
Last update: 2005-05-05 by Dennette@WiZ-WORX.com
<Who is this "Dennette" person?>
