Pure artistic photography using
only light and film to
create dramatic effects, even
with colour reversal film
without any digital software, or
darkroom chemistry!
By John Neville Cohen
A
lot of information and examples can be found on the
Internet about ‘Painting with Light’, or 'Light Painting',
and they are mostly only about moving lights within a
prolonged exposure. There are also a lot of examples about
‘Projection Photography’, but these are limited to the
idea of simply projecting patterns, or text onto people,
or buildings.
My own form of ‘Projection Photography’ was discovered in
the early 1960’s, and this pure form of special effect
photography provides far more opportunities and is so much
more sophisticated. The magic lantern truly lives up to
its earlier name, as it really provides the best magical
method for creating artistic photography!
So
much that is possible digitally such as: image blending,
masking, distorting, changing colours, and adding textures
can be achieved with the projector. In addition, images
can easily be manipulated with crystals and reflections
too.
Since
there is growing interest in analogue photography, these
original special effect techniques, are now proving to
be of interest again, as most of the possibilities
available digitally, are surprisingly also possible with
film, and all my creative photographs were taken on
Kodachrome (the film had to be posted and processed
by Kodak), so unlike other techniques, all these
creations could be seen before exposing any film.
I
did not always project onto a flat screen, but instead I
projected images onto many other things that were to
become the subject of the picture, for example I have
created photographs of projected images on a butterfly
wing, a feather, a shell, a flower, a leaf, and even on to
the edges of the pages of a book.
Images
(transparencies and negatives, both in colour and
black and white) were blended too, by using more
than one projector. These techniques enabled the freedom
to create amazing new photographs, without any digital
software, or darkroom chemistry.
My
most famous, unique, and historical Kodachrome
transparency is ‘Spirit of Spring’ consisting of a
negative of a tulip combined with a portrait. This was the
first ever Kodachrome transparency that had both a
positive and a negative image, on the same emulsion.
Spirit of Spring
This
photograph won the London Salon Trophy in 1967 and there
were over twenty major one-man exhibitions of about 70 of
my photographs the following year (many were
organised by Kodak in the USA and UK). At that
time, my photography was described as ground-breaking!
There
are many more award-winning special effect photographs on
my website as well as detailed information in ‘The Magic
Lantern’ section, describing exactly how anyone can do it.
"...regarded
as one of Britain's most original photographers." The
Times. 16th December 1967 The Times Diary.
"A
woman's face was exquisitely metamorphosed with the cup
of a yellow tulip - a Femme - Fleur Picasso might have
perpetrated had he taken to photography."
Arts Revue. 11th Oct 1969, Vol XXI No 20.
"Very
marketable as well as interesting and adventurous in
themselves with congratulations."
Cecil Beaton C.B.E. 8th March 1968
"…
extends the boundaries of the possible in photography
and shows us all how we can do so too."
Sir George Pollock Bt., M.A. (Former President
of The Royal Photographic Society 1978).
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