![[~wallopix/img0102j.htm]](img0102j.gif)
IMG0102J
is an early experiment with grainy portraits. As I recall, I was
increasing contrast by making contact prints of prints, emulsion
to emulsion, through a couple of generations of positives and
negatives.
IMG0102J
is an early experiment with grainy portraits. As I recall, I was
increasing contrast by making contact prints of prints, emulsion
to emulsion, through a couple of generations of positives and
negatives.
![[~wallopix/04250096.gif]](04250096.gif)
This is the photograph that I used to talk Mrs. Loh into a sitting
for a portrait. I talk about that session in the first entry in
my journal, November, 1969.
04250096 is the Loh portrait, digitized
from a larger image. It's early, it's crude, but it was a style
I set out to perfect as the basis of earning my living.
My written journal begins as I prepare to leave Baltimore for the second time. I spent six months there between my Freshman and Sophmore years. I hocked my Nikon - twice - to pay my rent.
These two photographs were probably taken two years apart. The Loh portrait looks like it was shot for a cosmetics advertisement in a magazine. It's a variation on a style made popular in the 1960s by Richard Avedon. The "nude look" is a subtle illusion of the brain ... All she did was to put her brassier straps under her armpits, crossed her arms so as to cover the top of her bra in front, crop to show only bare flesh, and the rest is left to your imagination.
Last update: 13-May-96 by dennette@wiz-worx.com
<Who is this "Dennette" person?>