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I decided to stage my own image with elements of the Schwemberger story. The James & Burke camera, the photograph of “Nine girls” and the Newton’s Rings (described in the very technical preservation process of the original plates) forming a target. All combine to create a rather startling if not menacing print.
Such photographs will always raise debate – How much was straightforward recording, how much was staged?
Does it record or impose cultural/religious meanings on the subject(s) or photographer?
Whatever the interpretations, photography freezes the moment in time, it “captures”, for better or for worse.
I used the photo-intaglio process, which I felt was most in keeping with the project.
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