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Michael Schreier
Watercourse/Stone Suite, 1994-1995

 

This is an in camera photograph. It was created by placing colour photographic printing paper in a large format camera and exposing it to light over a period of several hours. Changing patterns of light, shifting shadows, and the motion of the water are recorded directly on the paper. There is no negative.