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Luz Impresa Luz Grabada
Terrón Padilla, Ana
This research work was created with the initial intention of interrelating pinhole photography and a graphic reproduction process, photopolymer. Neither of them plays an anecdotal role in our research; both are equally relevant. At the same time, we believe they do not overlap or negate each other; rather, they complement each other. One has been used as our initial creative impulse, referring to pinhole photography, and the other as the poetic and graphic stimulus necessary for the subsequent search for creative printing. The hybridization of the two techniques proposed throughout our study creates the perfect symbiosis between different plastic-graphic manifestations, which we consider essential to achieve the final result, where tradition and innovation go hand in hand. We believe that in any creative process, mixing both techniques and materials contributes to the enrichment of the final work. In this case, thanks to this combination, we benefit from the advantages of working with a pinhole camera, with all the aesthetic-plastic benefits of turning a photograph into a print. On the other hand, we feel the need to recall a photographic technique forgotten in the technological landscape we are immersed in, taking advantage of the purity that the technique itself preserves, where time and light are its great protagonists. Therefore, from this creative need and the union of these two artistic processes, this research is born. We have no record of this fusion being carried out previously, which motivated us even more to continue this line of research that we consider innovative. Through our study, we aim to demonstrate the validity of this hybridization, which we believe significantly increases the range of creative possibilities that the artist can face in their work. The theoretical framework of our study has been created with the desire to understand these techniques in depth and demonstrate the influence that photography had on engraving and vice versa throughout history. These two techniques collaborate in the practical part of this research, mutually complementing each other during the process, thus facilitating the search for creative printing. The hybridization of these two techniques significantly increases the range of creative possibilities for the artist, contributing to the enrichment of the final work. This, in turn, creates the perfect symbiosis between different plastic-graphic manifestations, where tradition and innovation have gone hand in hand. With this work, we have contributed new bibliographic references, which have been compiled in a single work, with the intention of contributing to the breadth of knowledge and research of this artistic practice.
Publicher
Universidad de Granada
Language
ES
Country
Spain
Edition Year
2017
Category
Pinhole
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