Joseph Consavela

Vintage French Silver Gelatin Photograph - Nice, Riviera

Circa 1930

Silver gelatin photograph of a close up superimposed portraits by photographer Layet, circa 1950. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival pl...

Silver gelatin photograph of Andalusia, Spain, circa 1930. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival plastic sleeve and Certificate of Authent...

Original pencil signed silver gelatin photograph of a workman among building debris by Shirley Carter Burden, 1953. Signed " S.C. Burden" in pencil lower right. From a personal por...

Original pencil signed silver gelatin photograph featuring an enrapt male member of a large audience by photographer Shirley Carter Burden, ...

One of the famous members of the Humanist photography in France. Signed lower right. Stamp of the artist's studio on the back.

The work is available as Silver gelatin print, by the artist, made in the darkroom, from the original 35 mm black and white negative and in a total edition of 25. Available in 4 siz...

Chris McCaw builds his own large-format cameras and outfits them with powerful lenses for his "Sunburned" series. Instead of film, McCaw inserts expired vintage, fiber-based gelatin ...

Sunburned GSP#871 (Great Salt Lake, Utah), 2015 Gelatin Silver Paper Negative Unique 12" x 20" (30.5 x 51 cm) Framed: 15 5/16" x 23 15/16" (39 x 59 cm) Chris McCaw builds his own large-format cameras and outfits them with powerful lenses typically used for military surveillance and aerial reconnaissance. Instead of film, McCaw inserts expired fiber-based gelatin silver photo paper directly into the camera. Pointing the lens at the sun, McCaw makes recordings ranging from thirty seconds to as long as 36 hours. The sun, intensified by the lens, scorches its path across the paper while creating a solarized image of the landscape or seascape below – a “direct positive” image made in-camera, without an intervening negative. These burned lines and holes are tangible traces of the act of making each photograph: marking time, recording location, mapping weather conditions and channeling light.