So this is my final project for my camera art class. I have to give credit to Connor Olthuis, who showed me this technique of modifying pictures with TextEdit. So basically I've been trying to break some rules I have set up in my head, one being that when combining digital media and analogue media I like to have most of the final being a work of my hand in whatever analogue medium I'm using. That being said, the matt medium transfers were a bit sloppy so my imperfect hand was still somewhat apparent. I also don't tend to like using appropriated images but my aim was to do something I normally wouldn't. This was sort of my low tech photo editing that I did, the process was going to wikipedia and getting a random article then using a photo from that page to edit and modify. The first page I got was Richard Nickel.
"
Richard Stanley Nickel (May 31, 1928 – April 13, 1972) was an American photographer and historian of Polish descent best known for his efforts to preserve and document the buildings of architect Louis Sullivan."
So after that point I opened the Jpeg I selected in TextEdit, and copy and pasted the entire wiki article into the code of the image repeatedly and randomly and saved them multiple times under new file names. It creates a kind of fun interplay from the addition of information which results in this digital decay, also appropriate for the content of the original image (which was an Armory being torn down). Then I opened the pictures in MS Paint and did a print of each document over 4 pages on velum. Then I taped them together and masked the edges with painters tape and did 15 coats of matt medium to joint the separate the pages. Once finished the velum could be removed to have a crude enlargement of the original document using a standard black and white laser printer. This photo doesn't really do it much justice, I forgot my camera so I had to use my phone, more documentation to come later perhaps...?
