Pool in the Indulkana mesas, South Australiac. 1988
This photograph is from Wesley Stacey’s series Barragga to Indulkana (1971–92), which is a compilation of landscape photographs taken with panoramic cameras between 1971 and 1992. The photographs plot an imaginary road trip from the beach at Barragga (where Stacey lives) to a waterhole at Indulkana in northern South Australia. This cross-country transect includes views of beaches, creek beds, snowfields, grasslands, forests and deserts, from New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory.
The Barragga to Indulkana sequence features many of Stacey’s most dramatic panoramas. Carefully composing his shots to take advantage of the panoramic format, he uses the stretched proportions to make vistas breathe and accentuate lines of perspective.
(2017)
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.
