I took this photo in 2009 on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. It is one of my favorite photos, and I've worked with it in a number of ways over the months: photo transfer using a variety of transfer media; conversion to a black-and-white image that I then hand-colored; burning the image onto photo-sensitive film and transferring the image onto a metal printing plate, which was then printed using a Vandercook proof press. Photo transfer using acrylic gel media was not very successful. The most effective medium, I found, is aerosol fixative.
Here is the image printed in two colors from a photopolymer printing plate using a Vandercook proof press. I used the image in a chapbook of poetry created for the course Printing II in the University of Alabama Book Arts program. Below is an experimental image consisting of photo transfers set at different angles, watercolor paint, and overlaid transparancies.
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Second Avenue Doorway
Photo transfer triptych. |
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| House of Study belonging to the Krasna Hasidim, Williamsburg. |
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Typical wall in Williamsburg. It is covered with advertisements and community announcement, in particular, Jewish legal rulings (p'sak halacha, written in white letters on a black background at the top of three posters shown above).
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| In my imagination, one building is reaching out to touch the other. |
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Brooklyn Heights. Fire escapes are as alive as vines.
The open arms of a train entrance, Williamsburg |
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