Damaged Negatives

[Mars]

Has anyone heard of making damaged negatives (intentional), to make a different look when making prints?

 

[Sirius Glass]

That is something I have always avoided.

 

[Patrick Robert James]

Sure, lots of people have done it. People have taken a flame to color negs/chromes.You can scratch black and white negs. A long time ago I used to scrunch up prints and throw them on the floor.

I think Emil Schmidt who posts here has done quite a bit of this.

 

[btaylor]

Emil's work is stunningly good. You can check out his work and methods on the large format photography forum as well.

 

[mpirie]

Oh, my Lord......i have spent my entire photographic career in trying to avoid damage of any kind to my negatives.

I need to sit down at the prospect of people intentionally damaging negs !

 

[removed account4]

since about 1986.

I think Emil Schmidt* who posts here has done quite a bit of this.

do you mean emil schildt ( gandolfi )
his "kill your darlings" series is fantastic !
his website isn't around anymore but
there is a pintrist site with his work on it
https://www.pinterest.com/magdalenadamsky/emil-schildt/

 

[Robert Ley]

I had a Prof in college who would soak his 120 negs in calcium carbonate solution which would reticulate the negative and he would then use a razor blade to flip the emulsion over on itself. The images were stunning and several are in the collection of the George Eastman House. There is an article in a book from 1979 called "Darkroom Dynamics" by Jim Stone.

 

[Mars]

Sure, lots of people have done it. People have taken a flame to color negs/chromes.You can scratch black and white negs. A long time ago I used to scrunch up prints and throw them on the floor.

I think Emil Schmidt who posts here has done quite a bit of this.

I will have to check out Emil Schmidt. Scratch negatives with like a thumb tack? The bottom or the top?

 

[Mars]

since about 1986.



do you mean emil schildt ( gandolfi )
his "kill your darlings" series is fantastic !
his website isn't around anymore but
there is a pintrist site with his work on it
https://www.pinterest.com/magdalenadamsky/emil-schildt/

Checked out the pinter estate board on Emil schildt. You guys are right ...so cool.

 

[Mars]

Emil Schildt has a little video on YouTube. Amazing work, wow!

 

[Valerie]

I actually have an assignment called "Destroy your Babies" in which my students somehow damage their negatives and print from it.

 

[pdeeh]

I've razored out whole sections of LF negatives ...

 

[jim10219]

I had a Prof in college who would soak his 120 negs in calcium carbonate solution which would reticulate the negative and he would then use a razor blade to flip the emulsion over on itself. The images were stunning and several are in the collection of the George Eastman House. There is an article in a book from 1979 called "Darkroom Dynamics" by Jim Stone.

I second the recommendation for "Darkroom Dynamics" by Jim Stone! It's one of the more informative and useful photography books I've come across.

 

[removed account4]

i have never seen or read that book but it sounds fantastic !
photography is probably the most creative medium there is
there are lots of roads to travel with a camera or photo paper..

 

[Kino]

I have done it with motion picture film; roll it out, stomp it, wind it up through a dirty cloth and then ultrasonically clean it and chop sections out for jump cuts.

Pretty much the path most classic motion picture negatives go through in their cumulative life!

 

[tezzasmall]

Sounds like an interesting book and I have been lucky to find one really cheaply on ebay.co.uk, where there are a few available, as well on Amazon.co.uk at the moment.

What made me buy it the most was a review of it, saying that people into liquid emulsion should get it - and as I am, I did!

Terry S