Often, older black & white silver gelatin (light sensitive) papers are used. Marchand’s artistry is in mastering this technique to create these beautiful images.
Each original lumen collage in the collection is, itself, a unique print as Marchand hand cuts the papers into multi-paneled collages. The more three dimensional an object, the more the shadow of the image created hints at that object’s existence with soft shadow. If the object is rounded or not flush to the light sensitive paper, then the image outline is softer, fuzzier.
If the object lies on the paper flat, there is a sharper line and definition of the object. An actual camera, as we know it, is not used, hence the technique is also referred to as “camera-less" photography. It can be referred to as a “solargram” or, by technique, a “photogram.” A photogram is the process where objects placed on paper (or film) and then exposed to light leave a “shadow’ outline of what was placed on the paper. The artistry in the exhibition “Lumen Notebook” arises from both the process and creative expression.Īn original lumen print is a unique work created from placing objects on a light sensitive silver gelatin paper, and exposing it to light. Once scanned, a print is then made, cut exactly along the lines of the original pieces of paper, and arranged for an abstract expression of some part of our natural environment. A Lumen, or sunprint, is created from the interaction of sunlight, object, and paper to create an unpredictable but colorful visual of shapes from objects placed on the paper. Marchand then scans the temporal lumen images as an act of preservation of the revealed ephemeral colors. Her work is intimately tied to and dependent on nature to create images on a variety of light sensitive photographic papers. Amanda Marchand, a Canadian photographer living in Brooklyn, New York, is an artist using a camera-less photographic process to create lumen prints.
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