Richard Learoyd: Day for Night - Learoyd Richard
Richard Learoyd: Day for Night - Learoyd Richard This deluxe, oversized monograph offers the most comprehensive collection of British photographer Richard Learoyd's (born 1966) color studio images to…
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Richard Learoyd: Day for Night - Learoyd Richard
This deluxe, oversized monograph offers the most comprehensive collection of British photographer Richard Learoyd's (born 1966) color studio images to date--mostly portraits, but also including a handful of exquisite still lifes. The subject is in the adjacent room, separated by a lens. The color images are made with one of the most antiquarian of photographic processes: the camera obscura, literally translated from Latin as "dark room." Learoyd has created a room-sized camera in which the Cibachrome photographic paper is exposed.
The result is a perfectly clear, entirely grainless, larger-than-life image. Light falling on the subject is directly focused onto the photographic paper without an interposing film negative. Learoyd's subjects, composed simply and directly, are described with the thinnest plane of focus, recreating and exaggerating the way that the human eye perceives; the