Week 8- Image Process exhibition

For my second research, I looked at a piece by Marian Drew that I had seen in Paris Photo.

Marian Drew
Bandicoot with Quince, 2005
Digital print on archival cotton paper/ German etch paper with archival pigments/
112 x 134 cm

Through research, I learnt that digital printing can be printed onto a surface of any type or texture using an inkjet printer. Inks such as lightfast pigments are able to retain their colour appearance, even under exposure to light, keeping the image colours as close to real life as possible, and printing work on archival paper means the images will last for a long time. Short runs of work are cost efficient, so photographers can make prints for exhibitions without expensive in-between printing steps.

My final Image Process piece.

Looking personally at printing processes, and everyone elses' in the gallery, broadened my knowledge completely as to what other types of print processes there are, be it film based or digital, and I realised there is so much more out there than what I had come into the class knowing.


I found the Argyrotype to produce visually interesting images, ones that almost looked like a brown toned painting in their final product. It was especially interesting to learn that the process is an iron-based silver printing process, and the image could be printed on any type of paper.  This would be a process that I'd love to try.

William Henry Fox Talbot
'The Bridge of Sighs', St John's College, Cambridge. 1845
19.05 cm x 22.23 cm

Further reading and research

Marian Drew- http://www.mariandrew.com.au/

http://lightjourneys.net.au/artists/marian-drew/

http://www.qcp.org.au/artists/queensland/album-165/59

William Henry Fox Talbot (journal)- Aperture no. 161 (Winter 2000) - 'Specimens and marvels: William Henry Fox Talbot and the invention of photography'
http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/collection/artwork/124822

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33447/33447-h/33447-h.html