Charlie and breadchair

This is my friend doing her MA dissertation. Yes it's a chair made out of bread. No it's not all fresh and most was donated by a supermarket and was out of date and going to go in the bin anyway. Not the most flattering of poses but I think the face makes up for that.

Figured van dyke brown was appropriate for bread photos so made enlarged negatives. Now looking at it, I see there's no separation of tones between Charlie's shirt and the wall, so it's not as good as I thought... Very flat lighting made everything a flat gray.

Originally shot on HP5+ developed in Rodinal taken with my Finetta 88 camera. Enlarged onto APHS ortho litho 8x10 film developed in Ilford Multigrade for about 35seconds.
Location
Toynbee Studios, East Aldgate, London
Equipment Used
lots, see above
Exposure
f/8, 1/50
Film & Developer
see above
Paper & Developer
standard boring bockingford watercolour paper and normal Van Dyke Brown process
Lens Filter
none
first I didn't think it was bread, I thought it was stone. second, The pose looks very natural and not set up and the gaze makes you wonder what she is think about. I like it and well handled van Dyke too.

mike a
 
I also quite like this as a portrait. do you have any images of just the chair? what a cool idea.

-david
 

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