Darshan (band-room, Ghent)
Peter Milne spent six weeks with the Australian band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds when they toured Europe in 1992 promoting their latest album Henry’s dream. This photograph shows Cave holding court in Ghent, Belgium, and has been widely published. It was first published in the 1992 Rolling Stone yearbook, and appeared again in that publication’s 2002 anniversary Issue. It is included in Milne's book of photographs Fish in a barrel: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on tour (1993). Milne and Cave share a long history: Milne photographed some of Cave’s earliest performance.
(2014)
Gelatin silver prints are black-and-white photographic prints that have been created using papers coated with an emulsion of gelatin and light-sensitive silver salts. After the papers are briefly exposed to light (usually through a negative), a chemical developer renders the latent image as reduced silver, which is then fixed and washed. This technique was first introduced in the 1870s and is still used today. Most twentieth-century black-and-white photographs are gelatin silver prints. They are known for being highly detailed and sharply defined prints with a distinguishable smooth, even image surface.