http://www.anamorfose.be/ New photos to the collection en Copyright (c) 2012 Xavier Debeerst info@anamorfose.be (Xavier Debeerst) info@anamorfose.be (Xavier Debeerst) Wed, 23 May 2012 04:36:46 -0400 Zen-Cart v. v 2.1.4 14.02.2008 15:26 RSS 2.0 Feed 1440 http://www.anamorfose.be/experimental-photography Collector's room is the photo gallery for vintage art photos by Anamorfose There is the online photo gallery your visiting now and there is the brick and mortar Collector's Room in Izegem, Belgium. At both locations we offer unique prints for sale by mostly European photographers. The collection is organized in different themes from 1880 until 1950. Online vintage photo gallery specialized in historical black and white photography The idea of the collectors room is inspired on the 18th century Fench concept of a comfortable Room for Art where people joined to talk about art. The selection of this vintage and historical photos is my personal choice of images. There isn't a specific theme of subject. After more then twenty years of collecting photos there are images that are burned in your memory. These vintage photos are brought together in this section of the website. I hope you enjoy visiting this Room for Vintage Art Photography. info@anamorfose.be (Xavier Debeerst) http://www.anamorfose.be/experimental-photography Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:48:21 -0500 http://www.anamorfose.be/experimental-photography/abstract-photography There is a difference between abstraction and abstract. Not only in the meaning of the words but also in the application of the terms. In common language abstract is used in both cases. No difference is made between them. Abstraction is based on a representation of the reality and abstract is a lack of reality. How can photography be abstract? Very difficult because photography is by definition based on reality. Only a photogram or chemigram can be abstract in the strict sense of the word. Most photos in this exhibition are abstractions of reality, what we call abstract photography. Are you still with me? info@anamorfose.be (Xavier Debeerst) http://www.anamorfose.be/experimental-photography/abstract-photography Fri, 24 Feb 2012 03:14:05 -0500 http://www.anamorfose.be/experimental-photography/manipulated-photos Tatouage, manipulated photo To tattoo is to apply signs on the skin (permanent or not). The skin is one of the most important cults of our times, hence a contradiction between the glorification of the skin on the one hand and its mutilation on the other. In the end the two extremes meet. Look at other cultures where tatouages are symbols of rites or stages of life. Continue reading ... info@anamorfose.be (Xavier Debeerst) http://www.anamorfose.be/experimental-photography/manipulated-photos Fri, 24 Feb 2012 03:14:40 -0500 http://www.anamorfose.be/experimental-photography/micro-photography Micro-Photography info@anamorfose.be (Xavier Debeerst) http://www.anamorfose.be/experimental-photography/micro-photography Fri, 24 Feb 2012 03:15:23 -0500 http://www.anamorfose.be/experimental-photography/negative-prints Paper negatives Please scroll down to discover the catalogue The negative is the primary alienation of the reality. The paper negative goes back to the invention of photography by Fox Talbot. The paper negatives were originally used to make positive prints afterwards. They weren't final images, but a technical step between the reality and the positive print. The Dadaists and the Surrealists started to use it as an image on its own and as such it became a part of their visual language. Afterwards negative prints became more common and were used by a lot of photographers. In this part of the website we show 24 paper negatives, part of Tatouage, Sources of Surrealist photography. The paper negatives made by Jules Lejeune are real camera negatives that were used to make Pictorialist bromoils. These unique paper negatives are sometimes treated on the back with pencil. They give a very good view into the technique of Jules Lejeune. He was searching for a technique that could help to manipulate the reality in order to create an unexisting beauty. The paper negatives made by Mount Palomar are a part of an astronomical atlas and are scientific documents used to study the sky. These negative prints come in pairs and are very rare. info@anamorfose.be (Xavier Debeerst) http://www.anamorfose.be/experimental-photography/negative-prints Fri, 24 Feb 2012 03:16:47 -0500 http://www.anamorfose.be/experimental-photography/photocollage Please scroll down to discover the catalogue The photocollage and photomontage are very similar techniques: they both want to combine different images into one single new image. The way to achieve this goal is different. The photocollage uses cut out pieces of images mounted (glued) onto a new image. You can recognize a photocollage on its irregular surface. The collage technique is old and is commonly used in the other arts, even music and literature are using collage techniques. In the Interbellum the Surrealists made full use of the (photo)collage to create their new reality. They discovered this technique in the world of advertising. The photocollages we are presenting here come from the applied arts such as the world of printing and advertising. (c) Xavier Debeerst, 18/12/2003 info@anamorfose.be (Xavier Debeerst) http://www.anamorfose.be/experimental-photography/photocollage Fri, 24 Feb 2012 03:17:15 -0500 http://www.anamorfose.be/experimental-photography/photograms Please scroll down to discover the catalogue In their struggle of turning photography into an art which is independent of the camera techniques Surrealist photographers rediscovered the Photogram. Again nothing new but the revival of an old technique going back to Fox Talbot. The photogram is very easy to make: you take a piece of unexposed photographic paper, you put an object on it, expose an develop it and you have a photogram. One of the characteristics of the photogram is that each print is unique. This easy and rapid technique had a lot of applications: reproducing lace, copying text, making art studies, etc. In this on-line exhibition, which is a part of Tatouage, Sources of Surrealist photography, we present 10 rare photograms. The most rare one is the cyanotype photogram the human body made in 1910 in France. The subject, the size, the technique makes it a masterpiece. We present 5 other cyanotype photograms used to illustrate a lace collection. The most fabulous one is Vitraye: a large size photogram of a piece of lace. info@anamorfose.be (Xavier Debeerst) http://www.anamorfose.be/experimental-photography/photograms Fri, 24 Feb 2012 03:17:50 -0500 http://www.anamorfose.be/experimental-photography/photomontage Please scroll down to discover the catalogue The photomontage originates in the Vicitorian times with the combination of different Paper negatives into one positive print. Examples are the portraits where a figure is placed onto another background or the landscapes where another sky is used.The photomontage is at its best with the German Dadaïsts John Hartfield and Hannah Höch after the First World War. At that moment the photomontage was a technique used to find a new language in the search to show a different reality.The photomontages we show are fine examples of the Victorian group portraits. German soldiers took them home as a souvenir when they left the army. They are very complex photomontages of sometimes 30 or more different Paper negatives combined into one picture.Besides these Victorian photomontages we show the montages made by the Belgian designer Hameryckx. He used the photomontage to design ads. Now we use Photoshop to combine different images.(c) Xavier Debeerst, 18/12/2003 info@anamorfose.be (Xavier Debeerst) http://www.anamorfose.be/experimental-photography/photomontage Fri, 24 Feb 2012 03:19:13 -0500