In case you just want to go to the Galleries....

Paper Negatives

Way back about 1979 or 1980 I began a project to work in paper negatives. The idea was to try to produce "pictorial" looking photographs with modern materials. My first paper negative was made with a Nikon F and a piece of regular photographic paper instead of film. It worked. Very quickly, I decided to try it with a 4x5, which also worked and then moved up to a 5x7 and finally an 8x10.

These paper negatives were fine and some are very good, but they never lent themselves well to much display since the only print that could be made from the 5x7 or 8x10's was a contact print.

In starting a project for the 2001 Christmas book, I began revisiting the paper negatives and scanned all of the usable ones into the computer. Flash! Scan them all in!

Now I am in a position to do something with them.

There are 187 negatives in the entire collection. They are broken down as follows:

There are three galleries of photographs here. The total number I have selected, from the 187 images is 47, so there will be two 15 picture gallerys and one 17 picture gallery.

There are, of course, as many sizes of paper negatives are there are film sizes. I will identify then as "45, 57, or 810, so you will know what size negative each came off.

You will also notice that each negative seems to have a funny border. This is the border placed on the negative when it was exposed and I leave it there. All it shows is that each negative is not cropped. What you see is the whole negative.

So, for what they are..... here we go....