Photography Beyond Technique: Essays from F295 on the Informed Use of Alternative and Historical Photographic Processes
by Tom Persinger
OR, NOTES TOWARDS THE REINVENTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Upon publication of Primitive Photography in 2002,1 the fresh, liberating knowledge obtained from my personal study of the subject had led me to the conclusion that the contemporary alternative-process and pinhole movements were suffering from a kind of collective malaise, characterized by the same set of procedures and methods being endlessly repeated. If I was not desirous of making a break with these movements at the time, I was, at least, trying to present a different approach. And on many occasions, this approach involved letting voices from the past speak for themselves.
Setting my technical manual aside, I now would like to talk about what I call “the reinvention ...
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