Mitch Goldstein: Photograms 2016 - 2019
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Artist Link: Mitch Goldstein website
Photograms are an analog darkroom process that do not use a camera; instead, materials are placed on or near unexposed light-sensitive photographic paper, exposed to light, and then developed using standard darkroom chemistry. Innate in this process is a lack of control or predictability: there is no way to know what results will come until after the process is complete.
This body of work is an exploration of the form and complexity that comes from an unknowable process like creating photograms. Unlike film photography, each photogram is a unique, singular art object — it is not possible to make editions of prints like one can working from a film negative. Each image is the result of that specific set of materials, that exact quality of light, and that specific and unrepeatable interplay between the two.
Mitch Goldstein is a designer, artist, educator, and author based in upstate New York. He is an associate professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, where he teaches graphic design and pursues furniture design in the College of Art and Design. He has written about design education for years, with published articles in Communication Arts, Adobe 99U, and AIGA.
Mitch Goldstein Photograms available here.
