"Plant Form Study" by Annie Lemoux
Plant Form Study
Annie Lemoux
Media: Polaroid Emulsion Transfer
Print Size: 7 ½" x 9 ½"
Price: $325
Artist Bio:
Photography has been my life-long passion. I started enthusiastically photographing when I was twelve years old and my father put a camera in my hand and told me that everything we look at could be a subject for creating art and beauty.
All these years later, a lifetime, I still indulge in my undiminished photographic passion.
I am a retired photography professor from UCSD extension and Palomar college and now can focus on working at length with my archives which I neglected for lack of time.
My photographic passion is split between documentary photography which is observing the world outside me and recording it and the image-making which is the reversed creative process of looking inward to my innerworld and creating images born there. Both processes fascinate me equally.
I cannot begin to describe my gratitude for both as I have found so much joy, elation and excitement in the creative process whichever way it comes.
Photo Process:
The image in this(S)light of hand 2024 show is a result of my experimentation with Polaroid color film 809, large instant film format, used normally for checking exposure in studio shots.
But I thought that this color film somewhat flat range could produce interesting results if I used it with a B&W 35mm film negative, if the negative was chosen appropriately and the final image could pass for a positive or a negative.
So my negatives were carefully chosen to produce that illusion. The results were images on Arches hot press that looked like they were created in the 19th century with an antiquated technique appearance. That was exactly my ambitious intention to aim for a look like a Platinum or Palladium print.
At the time the 809 Polaroid film required a large film processor, which, luckily, I was given by Polaroid Nippon who had commissioned me to do a 30-image series for a show in Tokyo, with the intent to demonstrate the versatility of that film.
This film was challenging to handle and almost always produced some defect in the emulsion transfer, and one is visible in this image.