Discarded, stretched, mended and added-on through use and need... this series is based around the corsets that surfaced as I sifted through the heaps of clothing on the road along the top edge of Portobello Road and Brick Lane Markets in London from about 1976-1989.
These corsets had held women in all their shapes. Some were worn to oblivion; some were barely touched; some were to shape and cosset; and some to rigidly support.
The images were made using large and medium format cameras with tri-x film.
The models are fellow artists and family.
In 1988 I discovered alternative processes through a workshop held at the Victoria and Albert Museum. This series as well as Morrissey super 8s and portraits 'at home' were the first images I made using cyanotype and kallitype. RecentlyIi have used Moersch lith chemistry for a 1st edition 'strict tures.
Silver bromide images were printed on Agfa Brovira and Kentmere document paper. The lith images were printed on Foma bromide paper and developed with Moersch easylith.
Erika.Bromide.
Erika. Detail. Bromide.
Diptych. Erika. Cyanotype.
Celia. Lith.
CeliaI. Lith.
Triptych. Celia Cyanotype.
ModellaI. Document Paper.
ModellaII. Document Paper.
Katya. Proof. Document Paper.
Margaretha. Lith.
Katya. Proof. Kallitype.
PollyIII. Lith.
PollyI. Lith.
PollyI. Lith.
Triptytch. Polly. Cyanotype.