Sunday’s open portfolio sharing at SPE was really successful. I ended up getting a potential show of my photograms/Lumen prints, and was asked about publishing them. I was, and still am, very excited about it. I wasn’t totally convinced those would be well-received, or cared for. After showing them at the conference and getting so much good feedback, it gave me just that much more motivation to continue them.Yesterday during lunch I went to a canal which has a little flowing water near the job site in Osgood. I didn’t find anything floating in the water, but I found lots of plants on the thawing muddy banks. I just set one out to expose about 15 minutes ago. It’s really cloudy and overcast and raining a little, so the light is pretty weak, but the whole spirit of doing these is experimentation, unpredictability, and serendipity.I’ll try to keep track of things on twitter if anyone is interested in somewhat of a live update to the exposures.Oh, and I can never settle on a preference of calling them photograms or Lumen prints, the term coined by Jerry Burchfield.
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Ya man, I’m excited to see some of the new ones that you’re doing. I guess you’ll have to make some scans, if they fit in the scanner that is. If not maybe just do several passes then photomerge away. It will be nice to see a gallery of them up on your webpage.
That’s a tricky question about what to call them. On one hand “photogram” is immediately recognizable to most people; but at the same time “lumen print” has an inherent homage to the person who invented the process. Calling them by Burchfield’s term could make it clear to people that you aren’t trying to rip him off, but take what he did and move forward. So basically I don’t have an answer for you. lol. But there’s some thoughts.
That’s funny you mention calling them Lumen’s isn’t ripping Burchfield off, as that’s the reason I’ve been hesitant calling them that. On the way home from work I did some thinking about it, and I’m sticking with Lumen prints. I guess other Daguerreotypists stuck to that name instead of trying to come up with some other name.