Talk:Chemigram

Merger discussion for Chemigram

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Maybe join chemigram, chemogram, and similar arts in one article englobing all

A long time ago, I experimented with this kind of photography. I did not know that it could have different variants, each known with different names.

In my experimentation, I used several techniques not mentioned in this article, which I suppose are used by the mentioned artists.

Having no enlarger, I used contact prints, objects to project shadows, development and solarization. I do not remember well the steps, but that involved the exposition to light after printing. I also accidentally used contaminated developers which produced some colors. Developer could be used as ink in printed paper, developing only parts of the projected image, etc. I stoped my experimentation because I could not find chemicals to make viration to sepia and cyan. And because I finally could buy my enlarger, which I also used to do some experimentation.

This article made me remember my young years learning photography.

For that experience I suppose that those experimental techniques which I used, are also used in chemigrams, chemograms and similar arts.

Maybe all such photographic arts could be included in a single article called something like

photochemical process centered experimental art imaging or dark room centered art

or whatever established name for that purpose. After all, they are very short and must share many photographic development techniques.

I know that, suggesting a new name is against Wikipedia style, but I do not know if artists already use a name for those techniques. I didn't even know that the experiments that I did in my youth could be considered abstract art.

Whatever title is chosen to englobe all this arts, I think that it could have a structure like this:

1. What artistic techniques could be performed with or without camera produced images are mainly based on photographic developing lab, aka dark room. Chemography, chimograpy, etc.
2. which lab techniques are used, here a mention to the developing process, solarization, sepia and other chromatic virations, the use of tints, the use of silver salts, etc. each one with pointers to their specific article in wikipedia.
3. For each art variant, which of the above lab techiques are used
   1. vgr. chemography, uses this and that ...
      1. known chemography artists and their preferred techniques
   2. vgr. chemigraphy, uses this and that ...
      1. known chemigraphy artists and their preferred techniques
   3. etc.

Today many of those dark room techniques can be simulated with digital post-processing software like GIMP or photoshop. Maybe a section about digital versions of this art could be included, although I suppose that no plugins with random behavior yet exist in those programs to digitally do such arts.

As I mentioned, I just know something about this subject, because I did some experimentation in my youth, am not an history of art expert, or something alike to write the article, but maybe some other wikipedian reader may have such formation and do this collective work in wikipedia.