Salted Paper Printing

Figure 2.1 Untitled, from the In Subdued Light series, untoned ammonium chloride/sodium citrate salted paper, 26 × 17 cm © Kees Brandenburg 1989 image/2016 print. “The child figure in the print is a portrait of myself from a family picture. In my work I am often re-using existing image material. Either snippets out of art books, personal family pictures or photographed paintings or objects, sand, glass, mirrors. All this is arranged and re-photographed in a new setting where size and dimensions are often transformed or distorted. Small becomes monumental and monumental sometimes shrinks or both. I started using this method in the 80s and 90s ...