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Brian Taylor

Gum Bichromate Printing with Digital Negatives


Brian_Taylor_-ARTIST_CARDInstructor: Brian Taylor
Medium: Film or Digital Photography
Dates: POSTPONED – Perhaps until Fall 2015
Workshop Fee: $475 — Includes Materials

Materials List: HERE

Limited to only 10 students

This is a class for artists and photographers at every level.

This hands-on workshop presents one of the most rare and beautiful of all historic 19th century photographic techniques, the Gum Bichromate printing process. In this electronic age, many photographers still take great satisfaction in creating art by hand. During this three day intensive workshop, we’ll push the boundaries and explore photography in an open, creative, and intuitive way. We’ll explore the beautiful color photographic process of Gum Bichromate printing which allows avenues of expression beyond traditional and digital photography. Gum printing is a serendipitous photo process, yet one which rewards the patient artist with beautiful full color handmade images on various surfaces; it is one of the few alternative processes that allows the photographer to choose the multiple colors of the final image.

Demonstrations of historic printing techniques will be given and we’ll cover a lot of ground. Students will have plenty of time for individual instruction and hands-on investigation of this beautiful, 19th Century archival color process, printing their own images and taking home beautiful new artwork.

The photo techniques presented in this class allow us to print photographs on alternative surfaces like watercolor papers and even fabric, which can then be used for handmade books, collage, painting and drawing. This is a class for artists and photographers at every level who wish to gain a broader understanding of photography’s history and potential by exploring alternative processes in a fun and experimental way. Advanced skills in digital or traditional darkroom photography are not assumed or required.

Brian Taylor Biography

Brian Taylor was born in Tucson, Arizona. He received his B.A. Degree in Visual Arts from the University of California at San Diego, an M.A. from Stanford University, and his M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico.

Brian is known for his innovative explorations of alternative photographic processes including historic 19th Century printing techniques, mixed media, and hand made books. He has been a recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Polaroid Corporation. His work has been exhibited nationally and abroad in numerous solo and group shows and is included in the permanent collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY. His work has been published in American Photographer, Photo Asia, Exploring Color Photography, Artworks, and Photographic Possibilities.

Brian has taught photography workshops at institutions including the Friends of Photography, the University of California at Santa Cruz and Berkeley, Stanford University, Photo Alliance, Carnegie Mellon, and Penland. Brian is currently a Professor of Art in the photography program at San Jose State University and Artistic Director for the Center for Photographic Art.

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