Carbon Printing with Lisa Elmaleh
Date: September 15 & 16 | Saturday and Sunday
Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016
Price: $395
“During the entire period of its history,” states Sandy King in The Book of Carbon and Carbro, “carbon was considered the aristocrat of printing processes.” This class is a thorough introduction to the delightfully versatile carbon printing process, developed in 1855. The carbon process allows the printer to print in a variety of colors, tones, and on many different surfaces. Students learn how to make carbon tissues from gelatin, glycerin, sugar, and watercolor pigment. The carbon tissue is sensitized and exposed under a U.V. light source, then transferred to a base. Unexposed areas are washed away in warm water to reveal the base, leaving a raised exposed image. The raised texture of the exposed image is a unique quality of the carbon print. Students should bring large format or digital negatives for contact printing. Limited to 8 participants.
Instructor Biography:
Lisa Elmaleh is a large format photographer whose current work is an exploration of the landscape of the Everglades. As a native of South Florida, the Everglades were an essential part of her personal history. Using a portable darkroom in the trunk of her car, Elmaleh photographs using the nineteenth century wet collodion process. Elmaleh received the Silas Rhodes scholarship to attend the School of Visual Arts, and obtained a BFA with honors. She is a recipient of the Tierney Fellowship, the Everglades Artist Residency, the Camera Club of New York Darkroom Residency, and the Goldwell Artist Residency. She has been included in various group shows such as the 2008 New York Photofest (Powerhouse) and Landscape: Voyage (KMR Arts).
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The Center for Alternative Photography is pleased to announce our partnership with the International Center of Photography. The workshops that have CAP/ICP* next to the description are workshops that will appear in the Spring ICP catalog. We are looking forward to working with the ICP and to our continuing collaboration.