Gerald Incandela Book

Gerald Incandela’s long career is distinguished by work combining both photography and painterly mark making, pictures created at the boundaries between drawing, painting, and photography. Although traditional photographic processes have their roots in the nineteenth century, Incandela’s darkroom technique broke new ground in the 1970s; he’s been refining and developing it ever since. Beginning with the camera and a subject, Incandela does not “style” or set up his compositions before taking a picture, knowing that he can select the focus of the image from his negatives further on in the process. In the darkroom, Incandela begins traditionally, exposing a black-and-white negative through an enlarger onto silver-coated photographic paper. But thereafter, instead of slipping the paper into a bath of liquid developer as would be customary, this artist picks up a brush to apply the developer: working quickly, intentionally, he places his loaded brush into the field of light projected by the enlarger onto the paper, selecting from that image what his hand and eye want from it. Then, innovating further beyond traditional photographic processes, he can then expose another negative onto the same sheet and again select what he wants with his brush tip. Developing multiple negatives on one sheet of paper permits Incandela to explore illusions of depth through the arrangement of overlapping negative frames and areas of focus selected by both his eye and hand. Multiple perspectives from the same vantage point thus emerge. Details: Publisher: 12 Candles Press Author: Gerald Incandela 160 pages Hardcover ISBN: 979-8-218-78271-9