Michael G Jackson

The Self Representation of Light #412, 2 x Luminograms as one work

2016

ATO>MIC #9, 2020 Unique Gelatin Silver Print/ Luminogram and Photogram technique, Printed on tea infused fibre based paper, Framed 23 x 18 cm print size 38 x 35.5 cm framed Unique Series: ATO>MIC Signed and dated in pencil on print's verso © Michael G Jackson...

THE FLOW OF LIGHT UNDERWATER 2019 Being fascinated with light and water led me to explore how light travels in the sea - often caught on the backs of fish as they dart and swerve int...

King's Best, ‘Neck’, 2001 by John Reardon Edition of 7 Silver Gelatin Print, Mounted on Aluminium, Custom framed, UV protective Museum AR Glass This piece is part of : (after) Whist...

"I went there one evening and just by chance there was a low tide. I took a batch of photos and once I developed them at home I saw a certain light and a certain type of picture that...

Dubawi, 'Stripped’, 2001 by John Reardon Edition of 15 Silver Gelatin Print, Mounted on Aluminium, Custom framed, UV protective Museum AR Glass This piec...

ATO>MIC #3, 2020 Unique Gelatin Silver Print/ Luminogram and Photogram technique, Printed on tea infused fibre based paper, Custom Framed: museum mount-board with antireflective UV protective art glass in dark brown lacquered hardwood frame, /hand made in UK/ 23 x 18 cm (image print) 40.5 x 36 cm (Framed) Unique Series: ATO>MIC Signed and dated in pencil on verso Provided with the Certificate of Authenticity “The ATO>MIC work started as an attempt to replicate the idea behind still life painting - where you are trying to reproduce the image of solid looking things, things that could be on a shelf. So, I wanted to try doing that with just using light instead of paints - however I soon started to see the similarities with Harold Edgerton’s famous atomic explosion photos and how the scale of my work could be switched between small items on a shelf to enormous atomic explosions. That is the reason behind the strange title ATO>MIC - where the “>” is a kind of link between larger and smaller scales, between the two influencing ideas.” – Mike G Jackson The images (from the ATO>MIC series) may be reminiscent of the first milliseconds of atomic bomb explosions captured by Harold Edgerton's Rapatronic camera in the early 1950s but also visualise the thought of Maholy-Nagy’s bold visions in the Bauhaus’s movement toward the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk, or “total work of art.” The 3D concepts that were first expanded in the same art movement by El Lissitzky a hundred years ago, are also explored here by Jackson’s drowned thin line within the third of the image. In his vision, the line reflects a shelf with the object on top, by adding the weight to it, the gravity pushing them down. Or maybe the thin line is just the horizon, where the enormous atomic blast took place…? Beyond these flat forms of two dimensional ‘lumino-graphic’ works on paper, the purest form of photography (‘light drawing’) lays a visible path to three-dimensional imaginary world, realised in precise composition, rhythm and warm earthy tones of these works. It’s up to the viewer to decide what they prefer to see and take with them. As Wassily Kandinsky once said; “Imagination is what allows your mind to discover.” About the Artist: Michael G Jackson...

Gelatin silver print, pencil signed, dated, and titled verso, Provenance: The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL) Printed in 1961. Work is archivally matted by the The Art Insti...

"Moon Over", an abstract black & white photograph after Ansel Adams by Bill Clark (American, 20th Century). Signed "Bill Clark" and dated "1996" lower right. Titled "Moon Over" lower...

One-of-a-kind award winning photogram - made with SNOW, ice, sand, glitter, and flowers. triple exposure via firework led. Silver gelatin print. All of my photogram processes are of...

One of a kind handmade print; Made by hand in my (black and white) darkroom. This unique silver gelatin print was made flowers and a dripping candle (wax included). Printed on Fomatone MG 132 (semi-matte). "Metamorphosis" series. Fun fact, this print actually started out a demo print for my online class ("No Enlarger Necessary" via Penumbra Foundation); this portion of my "Metamorphosis" series placed Runner Up to the Series Winner of the 17th Julia Margaret Cameron...

One-of-a-kind alt process silver gelatin print. Made with flowers, glitter, sand and more. From my multi-award-winning "Metamorphosis" series. I began making alt process photograms ...

One-of-a-kind silver gelatin print - photogram made without the use of a camera. Handmade, black and white darkroom print. Mixed process multiple exposure (done partially underwater)...