Photographs of London: Week 3: Class Summary

Week 3 started off with a visit to St. Dunstan-in-the-East, which is one of my favorite outdoor spaces in London. We created emulsion lifts and began our chlorophyll prints in this space. To create these lifts, we had to first take a polaroid picture, dismantle it, and soak it in hot and cold water.  To the right is our workspace on Monday and on the left are several of the drying emulsion lifts of the class.





Wednesday was a lab day, where we had the joy of jumping rooms like rabbits because we kept getting kicked out (oops!). We were working on praxinscopes and anaglyphs; well, Bailey and Jasmine were using Photoshop/LR/GIMP to create these and I assisted where I could. If I can say so myself, I make a decent cheerleader. Later on, Laura showed me how to make anaglyphs in Photoshop which was amazing. The photo on the left shows Laura testing our praxinoscope image set. (Spoiler: it was successful)







Thursday was our field trip day. We went off to the Cindy Sherman exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery, which was a very intriguing exhibit. Two of her photos are below. Most of her photos are self-portraits, so her makeup skills are incredible to allow her transformations. After this exhibit, we went to the Cafe in the Crypt for some tea/lunch before enjoying a Fly Me to the Moon special performance by the St. Martins choir. The tea was delicious, but the food was so filling. As our last event of the day, we headed over to the V&A's Photography Center. This center contained motion pictures, stereoscopic images, a Fox Talbot exhibit, a Cindy Sherman photo, and more that we've discussed in class.

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