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Contemporary artwork, created by Niloufar Banisadr, Named
Voile d’eau

Type

Work reproduction

Date of creation

2003

Technique

Invented by Joseph Niépce in 1826, photography is based on two types of knowledge: optics, allowing an image to be captured and delivered, and chemistry used to fix it on a surface. Its inventor died in 1833, but Louis Daguerre continued his research to discover the development of the latent image reducing exposure time. At the end of the 19th century, Eastman Kodak democratized film photography by making it possible to take many photos in less time. Photography continues to evolve with the inventions of color, film, relief photos, and digital photos, or even synthesis, etc.

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Medium

Silver print

Film photography

What is film photography?

Film photography is a photographic technique allowing you to take photos and develop them on paper

Since the 2000s and the appearance of smartphones, this process has gradually given way to digital photography.

The term “silver” takes its name from the composition of the films used in this technique, since silver molecules are found there.

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Theme

Human

Dimensions

W. 40 x L. 30 cm

Framing

Yes

Work signed by the artist

Yes

Certificate of authenticity

Yes

Description

When I returned to Iran, influenced by my travels in France, I started taking photos of the body of a close friend in a jacuzzi. Certain that my actions could be misinterpreted, we did the sessions in secret. However, defying the ban weighed on us and for a time we suspended this work, which was finally completed only after six months in a more abstract form than we had imagined at the origin of the “project”.

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Man Ray, Richter, Sieff