January 2, 2007 - February 15, 2007
Jim Jordan
The Edge of Access
Miniature art has long served civilization in the form of money, jewelry, watches, medals, small portraits in lockets and many other forms.
Small scale art is often perceived as precious and an exercise of great skill and precision. It can also be seen as annoyingly small and hard to read by the viewer.
Traditionally, photography had the role of providing truthful information about the subject such as shape and form, small details and surface texture.
“The Edge of Access” defies normal expectations with its tiny dimensions. Miniatures have been defined as both intimate and remote and also as arrogantly small.
As a lifelong resident of the flat, almost treeless Texas Panhandle, Lilliputian photographs are an obvious choice for me, as I view tiny images of objects long before I get close to them in my automobile.
The prints are made by the almost obsolete gelatin silver process using the contact printing method of placing the negative directly on top of the photographic paper providing a photograph the exact size of the 35mm panoramic film.
The camera is a 35mm Widelux Panoramic.
Jim Jordan
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