Our Negative Qualities, 2020/23
Sixteen unique color photographs, 20. 24 in each.
Installation size, 86 x 100 in.
Produced as a series of 16 color photographs by han in the darkroom through the manipulation of a negative originally sourced from a Kodak ad campaign circa 1978.
The advertising tagline “Do you only love us for our negative qualities?” sits above a negative image of a couple in a laughing embrace.
This image is taken through multiple inversions in the darkroom and exposed by intercepting the enlarger with a cell phone camera light.
The advertising tagline “Do you only love us for our negative qualities?” sits above a negative image of a couple in a laughing embrace.
This image is taken through multiple inversions in the darkroom and exposed by intercepting the enlarger with a cell phone camera light.