A Little Homage to Photography by Juliana Melo ( aka Juli Manara )

Installing a home portable darkroom

jmelo003 — 2022-03-14 15:21:55 UTC

Some initial tests to develop some processes from home.

Objects Research

jmelo003 — 2022-03-14 15:26:30 UTC

The passion by the journey of photography is following me since I first start studying it. This are some historic materials I collected and a small wet plat self portrait from my first workshop in London to learn alternative processes

Brief notes about Women in the Photography

jmelo003 — 2022-03-14 16:45:52 UTC

Following my lecturer's advice on how to create my own version of the history - journey of photography I decided to focus my creations and inspirations through the work and life of females and non binary artists who pioneered the medium and are currently some of the most important photographers . Since I studied photographs and also lectured studio techniques at Speos School ( Paris - London) I found out that majority of people researches and even inspirations are from male artists. I still love a lot of male artists and learned a lot from them, but there are so many artists who are not highlighted and by discovering them I ended up teaching myself a lot - I added to my final MA project some selected ones choosing by they multiple styles, from earlier times to today and by their styles, from portraits , still life, fashion, war, activism and so on....

sketching...

jmelo003 — 2022-03-14 16:57:07 UTC

This is a little sketch before shooting images for the compositions. I first visualise the composition and then I create the images

test prints

jmelo003 — 2022-03-14 17:00:33 UTC

creating the compositions

jmelo003 — 2022-03-19 12:35:29 UTC

Images being created

jmelo003 — 2022-03-19 12:35:58 UTC

Debora Truvil - Fashion Photographer

jmelo003 — 2022-03-20 12:02:37 UTC

During the 1970s, fashion photography moved more towards sexual provocation and tended to become, according to Nancy Hall-Duncan, "a subdivision of the culture of pornography." Turbeville took its misty atmospheres and combined them with models that communicated neither between one another nor with the viewer

Grete Stern - Montages / Collages

jmelo003 — 2022-03-20 12:07:19 UTC

Grete Stern was a German-Argentine photographer. With her husband Horacio Coppola, she helped modernise the visual arts in Argentina, and presented the first exhibition of modern photographic art in Buenos Aires, she was most knows for her collages and photomontages.

Jessie Tarbox - first photographers

jmelo003 — 2022-03-20 12:08:37 UTC

Jessie Tarbox Beals was an American photographer, the first
published female photojournalist in the United States and
the first female night photographer. She is best known for
her freelance news photographs, particularly of the 1904
St. Louis World's Fair, and portraits of places such as
Bohemian Greenwich Village

1870 - 1942

Julia Leicester

jmelo003 — 2022-03-21 16:18:40 UTC

Albumen Print Photomontage found in a History of Photography book. It inspires me the surrealistic composition made out of collage. Images that were added new meanings to new compositions. This technique started years and years ago. I am fascinated by the deconstruction of the original photographs to a new concept.

Tests ----printing process - wet plate collodion

jmelo003 — 2022-03-30 06:57:28 UTC

MIXING styles "Owl Lover" Negative from 4x5 - Large Format Cameras

jmelo003 — 2022-03-30 06:59:48 UTC

As mentioned this project merged a lot of different techniques and styles together. Some images were shot with large format, as this film scanned here. Some were shot with medium format and 35mm and even mobile .

I love DADA

jmelo003 — 2022-03-31 09:17:49 UTC

Dada was an art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and folly of the war. The art, poetry and performance produced by dada artists is often satirical and nonsensical in nature

(Tate Modern)

The Future of Photography

jmelo003 — 2022-04-05 13:41:02 UTC

https://www.fotomuseum.ch/de/2014/03/03/is-photography-over/

A few years ago, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art held a conference about photography – for a photo conference, it had the odd title “Is Photography Over?.” Curators Sandra Phillips and Dominic Wilsdon posed the question as a challenge to panelists, audience members and the world at large. The two-day symposium was an attempt to shake up conventional institutionalized discourses about photography and to be an opportunity to think about what, if anything, has “changed” about photography over the last decade or so.

Zanele Muholi

jmelo003 — 2022-05-29 10:33:15 UTC

Nancy Sheung

jmelo003 — 2022-05-29 10:34:28 UTC

Sheung was born in Suzhou, China, in 1914 and a photographer with a strong eye for capturing space and forms

jmelo003 — 2022-05-29 10:39:05 UTC

My first trials with Ambrotype processes

jmelo003 — 2022-05-29 10:41:28 UTC

I have been studying alternative processes to combine with my digital works since 2020

PROCESS 1 - collage montage compositions

jmelo003 — 2022-06-09 09:45:52 UTC

Shirley Baker

jmelo003 — 2022-06-09 10:09:17 UTC

“I love the immediacy of unposed, spontaneous photographs and the ability of the camera to capture the serious, the funny, the sublime and the ridiculous. Despite the many wonderful pictures of the great and famous, I feel that less formal, quotidian images can often convey more of the life and spirit of the time”

PROCESS 2 - 10x8 camera / 1930 projector lens

jmelo003 — 2022-06-12 20:21:12 UTC

Wet Collodion plate is one of the oldest printing process from the late 1800s. The
process involved adding a soluble iodide to a solution of collodion (cellulose
nitrate) and coating to an aluminium o plate.After coating the plates, it needs to
expose it in at least 10-15 minutes. For this project I chose a 10x8 inches cameras
with an old school projector lenses from 1930sh and all this images needed 20
second exposure each (which explain the process of re-photographing the created
still images) to be able to capture this compositions( unusual images for this
process). Large Format Camera captures images upside down and in a mirrored way and
intensionally I leave it mirrored for an idea how the photographer sees the images
from the back of this cameras.

PROCESS 6 - back plate view

jmelo003 — 2022-06-12 20:23:00 UTC

this is the view from the 2d subject before shooting.
Light tests and time were made before with a 4x5 smaller plate so I didn't waste chemicals and materials

PROCESS 4 - Sensitizing

jmelo003 — 2022-06-12 20:23:54 UTC

Before it can be exposed in the camera, a collodion plate must be sensitized in a solution of silver nitrate.

This is done by dipping the newly coated plate into a 7% silver nitrate bath.

PROCESS 8 - water tray

jmelo003 — 2022-06-12 20:24:39 UTC

cleaning the chemicals...

PROCESS 9 - drying rack

jmelo003 — 2022-06-12 20:25:08 UTC

PROCESS 7 - developer

jmelo003 — 2022-06-12 20:25:40 UTC

PROCESS 10 - wax

jmelo003 — 2022-06-12 20:26:19 UTC

This waxing process in a layer protection for the plates durability

after 6 hours ....I managed to print all plates

jmelo003 — 2022-06-12 20:26:52 UTC

Kept them overnight drying to avoid any damage to the screen

Julia Margaret Cameron

jmelo003 — 2022-06-17 08:41:33 UTC

Julia Margaret Cameron was a British photographer who is considered one
of the most important portraitists of the 19th century. She is known
for her soft-focus close-ups of famous Victorian men and for
illustrative images depicting characters from mythology, Christianity,
and literature.

Most of her images are made through the wet collodion process

Ylla

jmelo003 — 2022-06-17 08:42:34 UTC

Camilla "Ylla" Koffler

1911 – 1955 was a Hungarian photographer who specialized in animal photography. At the time of her death she "was generally considered the most proficient animal photographer in the world."

Lee Miller

jmelo003 — 2022-06-17 08:43:02 UTC

Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose (April 23, 1907 – July 21, 1977), was an American photographer and photojournalist. She was a fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris, where she became a fashion and fine art photographer. During the Second World War, she was a war correspondent for Vogue, covering events such as the London Blitz, the liberation of Paris, and the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau.

jmelo003 — 2022-06-17 08:58:13 UTC

PROCESS 5 - Re-shooting the still images direct to the wet plate

jmelo003 — 2022-06-17 09:05:18 UTC

A large 2D print of the image constructed before was placed in front of the 8x10 camera . This large size made me work perfectly with the focus ( a smaller print would not provide me to shoot a sharp images with the size I wanted) .
Using an 8×10 camera requires patience it is mirrored and upside down images and to get the right angle with the heavy equipment can take a few minutes. I have 15 minutes to shoot with the wet plate as once it is dried it becomes waterproof and avoids images to be fixed on the surface

Camera Obscura

jmelo003 — 2022-06-20 09:43:20 UTC

4x5 Camera

jmelo003 — 2022-06-20 09:55:49 UTC

This is a 4x8 wood camera used for some of the photographs composed in the project

Self Portrait Figures as the main subject

jmelo003 — 2022-06-20 09:56:00 UTC

All the masks designed by me and were hand made by a craft lady back in my home town in Brazil

Creating "Captan" The Bunny

jmelo003 — 2022-06-20 09:56:14 UTC

drawing is the way I create the ideas for my characters

jmelo003 — 2022-06-20 09:56:35 UTC

jmelo003 — 2022-06-20 09:57:03 UTC

samples of the shooting with 35mm

jmelo003 — 2022-06-20 10:03:12 UTC

Photographer Inspiration - Roger Ballen

jmelo003 — 2022-06-20 10:18:03 UTC

I enjoy the way Roger's use fictional figures into his created photographs . His obscure scenarios and props bringing this narrative to a lens based work is fascinating and unusual for the start of the medium.

Inspirations

jmelo003 — 2022-06-20 10:20:43 UTC

Costume design with stripes and shapes

INSPIRATION....Scarnival deck, “Tarot” by Jess Hundley from Taschen’s Library

jmelo003 — 2022-06-20 10:36:20 UTC

Inspirations

jmelo003 — 2022-06-20 10:37:34 UTC

Faces of a human can tell a lot and fake a lot. I like the mystery and the no identification .

inspirations

jmelo003 — 2022-06-20 10:39:58 UTC

I am fascinated by FIGURES CHARACTERS

Inspirations

jmelo003 — 2022-06-20 10:42:46 UTC

no human faces...

Imogen Cunningham

jmelo003 — 2022-06-20 11:20:57 UTC

Imogen Cunningham April 12, 1883 – June 23, 1976) was an American photographer known for her botanical photography, nudes, and industrial landscapes. Cunningham was a member of the California-based Group f/64, known for its dedication to the sharp-focus rendition of simple subjects.

Bettina Rheins

jmelo003 — 2022-06-20 11:22:41 UTC

French photographer based in Paris. I had the opportunity to attend a lecturer made by her in 2010 which was a big inspiration for being a photographer.
She created a series called Modern Lovers (1989-1990) where the photographer questioned gender, androgyny and transsexuality.

Alma Lavenson

jmelo003 — 2022-06-20 11:30:51 UTC

Alma Ruth Lavenson was an American photographer active in the 1920s and 1930s. She worked with and was a close friend of Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston and other photographic masters of the period.

She was invited to participate in the famous Group f/64 show at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, although there is some uncertainty about whether she should actually be called a "member" of Group f/64, given her association with Pictorialism.

Homage to- my favourite- Lee Miller - Final Print

jmelo003 — 2022-06-21 07:42:35 UTC

Wet Collodion Final Print - Sad War - 10 x 8 inches 2022

Surrealists Inspirations

jmelo003 — 2022-06-21 07:57:17 UTC

Surrealism aims to revolutionise human experience. It balances a rational vision of life with one that asserts the power of the unconscious and dreams. The movement’s artists find magic and strange beauty in the unexpected and the uncanny, the disregarded and the unconventional. At the core of their work is the willingness to challenge imposed values and norms, and a search for freedom.

The word ‘surrealist’ (suggesting ‘beyond reality’) was coined by the French avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire in the preface to a play performed in 1917. But it was André Breton, leader of a new grouping of poets and artists in Paris, who, in his Surrealist Manifesto (1924), defined surrealism as:

pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to express, either verbally, in writing, or by any other manner, the real functioning of thought. Dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation.

Homage to Imogen Cunningham

jmelo003 — 2022-06-21 08:06:33 UTC

Homage to Jessie Tarbox Beals

jmelo003 — 2022-06-21 08:11:12 UTC