V&A Photography Room

I went to the V&A photography room to consider possible options for displaying the layers of cloth.

Potential to display the cloth in a box with light like an old camera?

This Daguerreotype is a compilation of drawings, prints or photographs of paintings cut out and photographed together. It feels almost like a collage. The mirror quality has an interesting quality that frames both last and present. The burnished edges feel like an old photograph.

The negatives of an image feel contemporary, perhaps because it’s a mode we don’t always see. Feels X-ray like.

I like the idea of composing people within a landscape. Perhaps creating my own dreamscape from photographs and memories, creating a new narrative.

Solarisation makes me think of Man Ray. I love the effect and like the idea of reversed tones. The images are so close to reality but provide a slight shift in perspective.

Long Chin-San’s image combines “several images in one print to create poetic landscapes that evoke traditional Chinese ink painting. I love the idea of combining different images, each with their own narrative to create a new one. There is an absence of perspective which provides an image that is close to reality but with a shift.

The idea of the stereograph feels close to my exploration of cloth, both require layers to create a shift in reality.

Photogravure as a type of photography printed in ink.

The brownie camera made photography more affordable and accessible to households. “Its name was inspired by household spirits known as ‘brownies’, which appear in traditional British folklore and were popularised in children’s literature in the 19th century”. I like this idea of a photograph being spirit like.