For artist Laura Plageman, printing a photograph doesn’t make it a finished product just yet. The San Francisco Bay Area-based photographer will manually — rather than digitally — alter it first: She will make a collage out of it, light it and then take a photo of what comes to be. Only then will the work be complete.
Plageman values the work put in perhaps as much as the output, which she describes as “both a truth and a fiction.”
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“I like seeing the evidence of the process and the materials showing through in the final image – tears, folds and places where the ink is rubbing off of the paper,” Plageman says. “I want the viewer to see something without knowing what it is yet – to enjoy this moment of looking at the details and discovering the image for themselves.”
The landscapes, then, are both literally and figuratively more than what they were initially photographed as.
Plageman’s works will be on view in “Her Feet Planted Firmly on the Ground” starting March 3 at Houston Center for Photography.
Source: designfaves.com