Carmen de Vos Black and White Photography
Belgian photographer Carmen De Vos shoots polaroids to frame her mental escapades. They get so easily out of hand. She thinks up situations and collects fantasies. She is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the late TicKL-Magazine. Carmen De Vos is a slow photographer. She registers, portrays and thinks up odd stories. She enormously longs for what she’s afraid to lose: real human contact, the slowness of being and creating, the tangibility of materials. Almost without exception, she uses old polaroid cameras, long time expired film and self-made filters. Her tools and methods, such as film bleaching and deliberate film obstruction, are not precise and are not even geared towards a perfect representation. They often yield results, such as colorization, deformation, unsharpness, which she could never have predicted on forehand with any certainty because their flaws do not allow for calculation. She’s not in control. She fights the material. She plans, stages and directs but the decayed chemistry and off-focus lenses add their magic, all by themselves, which merrily surprises her or ruins her image. This battle attracts her as much as it frustrates her. She loves to create within these limitations, to try to produce the best possible image within the narrow circumstances given. Luckily, she’s a sucker for imperfections. Once upon a time, she found herself guilty of home-crafted mischiefs for TicKL, her English art porn Polaroid magazine. She can’t help but travel back to these blessed times of free-love photography with her Polaroids.
2010s Contemporary Carmen de Vos Black and White Photography
Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
![ELFRIEDE #01 [From the series Sensoteque] - Polaroid, Color](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/carmen-de-vos-photography-elfriede-01-from-the-series-sensoteque-polaroid-color-for-sale/a_6523/a_68823121602435825335/carmendevos_08_Elfriede_01_ShadowFrame_master.jpg?width=240 "elfrieda l nude")
Early 2000s Contemporary Carmen de Vos Black and White Photography
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
![Topsy Turvy [From the series Need to be] - Polaroid](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/carmen-de-vos-photography-topsy-turvy-from-the-series-need-to-be-polaroid-for-sale/a_6523/a_77384821616006142617/carmendevos_14_TopsyTurvy_master.jpg?width=240 "carmen de villers")
Early 2000s Contemporary Carmen de Vos Black and White Photography
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
![Elke [From the series Famous in Flanders] - Polaroid](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/carmen-de-vos-photography-elke-from-the-series-famous-in-flanders-polaroid-for-sale/a_6523/a_77386121616007227643/carmendevos_12_Elke_print_master.jpg?width=240 "elke de vos")
2010s Contemporary Carmen de Vos Black and White Photography
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Early 2000s Contemporary Carmen de Vos Black and White Photography
Archival Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Archival Pigment, Pigment, Phot...
1990s Contemporary Carmen de Vos Black and White Photography
Archival Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment, Photographic Film, Pi...
1940s Contemporary Carmen de Vos Black and White Photography
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
1990s Contemporary Carmen de Vos Black and White Photography
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Arc...
1990s Contemporary Carmen de Vos Black and White Photography
Archival Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment, Photographic Film, Pi...
1980s Contemporary Carmen de Vos Black and White Photography
Photographic Film, Archival Pigment, Pigment, Giclée, Black and White, P...
1980s Contemporary Carmen de Vos Black and White Photography
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
20th Century Contemporary Carmen de Vos Black and White Photography
Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Lambda
1990s Contemporary Carmen de Vos Black and White Photography
Archival Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment, Photographic Film, Pi...
1980s Contemporary Carmen de Vos Black and White Photography
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
1960s Contemporary Carmen de Vos Black and White Photography
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
1980s Contemporary Carmen de Vos Black and White Photography
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
Early 2000s Contemporary Carmen de Vos Black and White Photography
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
![Preus #05 [Self-portrait from the series Need to be] - Polaroid, Nude](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/carmen-de-vos-photography-preus-05-self-portrait-from-the-series-need-to-be-polaroid-nude-for-sale/a_6523/a_76071521614103119489/carmendevos_19_Preus_05_master.jpg?width=240 "delphine baril nude")
Early 2000s Contemporary Carmen de Vos Black and White Photography
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
![Preus #06 [Self-portrait from the series Need to be] - Polaroid, Nude](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/carmen-de-vos-photography-preus-06-self-portrait-from-the-series-need-to-be-polaroid-nude-for-sale/a_6523/a_76070821614102873956/carmendevos_19_Preus_06_master.jpg?width=240 "Carmen de Vos - Preus #06 [Self-portrait from the series Need to be] - Polaroid, Nude")