City of lost children 12007
Titled after a 1995 surrealist film, this photograph by Chantal Faust is an intimate, close-up portrait of a man and a woman. It has a dark, dreamlike quality to it, which is partly a result of its method of production. This image was produced through direct contact between the subjects and a digital flatbed scanner. Deliberately drawing attention to the process of its production, Faust has maintained in the image the smudges and smears, which trace the subjects’ movements and the contact they made with the glass of the flatbed scanner during the creation of the work.
(2018)
Chromogenic prints are printed on paper that has at least three emulsion layers containing invisible dyes and silver salts. Each emulsion layer is sensitive to a different primary colour of light (red, green or blue). The development process converts the hidden dyes to visible colour depending on the amount of light it was exposed to. This type of paper is commonly used to print from colour negatives or digital files to produce a full-colour image. It can also be used to print black-and-white images, giving softer grain and less contrast than gelatin silver prints. Commonly known as c-type prints, chromogenic processing was developed in the 1940s and widely used for colour printing, including for domestic snapshots. While recent years have seen this process accompanied by ink-jet and digital printing technologies, chromogenic printing still remains in use to this day.
