ANTHOTYPES AND OTHER ORGANIC PROCESSES I
Instructor: Anne Eder | Dates: Tuesdays, July 9 - 30 | Time: 6-8 PM | Tuition: $570 Members: $485 | Requirements: N/A
This class is an introduction to plant-based photographic processes! It will cover anthotypes, chlorophyll printing, lumens, and phytograms. The class will meet online once a week for demos and students will then take what they have learned and complete that week’s assignment, returning for critique and a new demo each week. An online digital classroom is used between meetings to post work and ask questions.
Anthotypes date back to the 19th century and that intrepid gentleman scientist, Sir John Herschel. An emulsion is made from fresh plant material, coated on paper, and exposed using the sun.
Chlorophyll printing is related to anthotype printing, but instead of using plant juices to create an emulsion, an image is created directly into leaves using an object, stencil, or positive transparency.
Lumens are camera-less prints made using plant and other materials or transparencies in direct contact with black and white silver gelatin photographic papers to create wildly colored and unpredictable prints of great beauty.
Phytograms are similar to lumen prints but are made by using an organic and nontoxic chemistry and plants on film rather than paper. This can then be developed and used for printing or presented as a final art object.
Images 1 and 3 © Anne Eder. Images 2 and 4 © John Joyce, from Anne’s workshop. Courtesy of the artists
ANNE EDER is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. She is faculty at Harvard University Ceramics program, guest faculty at Princeton University, and holds a master’s degree in Photography and Integrated Media from Lesley University College of Art and Design where she studied with Christopher James, author of the Book of Alternative Processes.
She has won multiple awards, including four Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, a first place series JMC and two International Pollux Awards for alternative process. Her work has been published internationally and her gum bichromate images and studio practice are featured in Gum Printing: A Step-By-Step Manual Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice by Christina Z. Anderson, published by Focal Press/Routledge. She teaches a range of courses in experimental analog and interdisciplinary processes. anneeder.com
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