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June 8, 2006- July 8, 2006
David Stewart
Brenda Taylor Gallery
511 W 25th St David Stewart Six Feet Under |
On Thursday, June 8, 2006, Brenda Taylor will exhibit David Stewart for the first time as he brings his watercolor photographs using the carbro process to a larger audience. The carbro process is unique in that it magnifies and adds depth to the colors of his prints, emphasizing his unusual subject matter: older people behaving as adolescences, and his sense of color. His method, though rare, is not new, as it dates back to 1863 with Louis Ducos du Hauron, and was patented by Thomas Manly in 1905. This process however did not truly make stride until Paul Outerbridge undertook the most expensive and extensive research in color to date, bringing the carbro process not only to advertising but also allowing for color originals to make photomechanical reproduction.
Several laborious hours of concentrated effort and financial investment go into making a single Carbro-color print. It is unique among photographic processes because the pigments used are the same as those in oil paint. Not only are the pigments unusually permanent, having been tested for 500 years, but they also exhibit an extra-dimensional quality, as the emulsion transfer process (done in 45 steps) creates shadows perceptibly deeper and highlights that are finely graded.
Though technology allows for digital negatives to be transferred, David Stewart continues to use the film method, allowing for a thicker more lush layer of emulsion, and therefore more depth and color in his prints.
* The Carbro process derives its name from the cross between carbon and bromide prints, hence carbro.
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