Black Light
Keld Helmer-Peterson
Keld Helmer-Petersen was a Danish photographer who achieved widespread international recognition in the 1940s and 1950s for his abstract colour photographs. He was inspired by Albert Renger-Patzsch, the experiments at The Bauhaus in Germany and by Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind at the Art Institute of Chicago. Helmer-Peterson also published several books of black and white images that explore dramatic contrasts of tone. In some, we are only presented with images that are black and white (All mid tones have been removed).
Photobooks
A photo book or photo book is a book in which photographs make a significant contribution to the overall content. Early photo-books are characterised by their use of photographic printing as part of their reprographic technology. The first photo book, Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions (1843-1853) was created by Anna Atkins. The book was released as a partwork to assist the scientific community in the identification of marine specimens.
Process of when we made photobooks:
- Chose a selection of images, and edit them in photoshop by changing the threshold to make the images completely black and white
- Got an A1 sized paper and folded it into 16 squares and then cut parts of it so then it could fold up into like a book
- Printed our threshold images all different sizes to fill all the 16 squares front and back, and stuck them on
- Folded it back up and had our photo book
- Got an A1 sized paper and folded it into 16 squares and then cut parts of it so then it could fold up into like a book
- Printed our threshold images all different sizes to fill all the 16 squares front and back, and stuck them on
- Folded it back up and had our photo book
Threshold edited images I used: