Monthly Archive for August, 2005

Irving Penn at the National Gallery of Art

While in college I had an opportunity to work with palladium as a photographic printing medium. More than anything, it was an educational experience; I was never very happy with the images I produced. I like the tones which can be produced by both platinum printing and palladium, but I had never thought of either method of printing having any differing qualities from other photographic methods outside of the tone created. After reading about Irving Penn’s work I began to think I had missed some of the qualities of the mediums. Continue reading ‘Irving Penn at the National Gallery of Art’