Comments on: society's fabric

society's fabric

the noob — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:31:20 -0800

The woven photographs of Seung Hoon Park New works from South Korean photographer Seung Hoon Park. Park uses a process to overlay or weave together film strips, however this appears to be a single print.

By: fake

fake — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:37:17 -0800

It appears that the photographer is laying 35mm film on the back of a large-format camera, perhaps in alternating rows, like a picket fence. Then the photographer develops the film, and weaves it together. An alternate approach would be to take several photographs of a scene with a normal camera and use the enlarger to image the scene onto strips of film. These strips would later be woven together. All in all, a nice technique and some very neat images.

By: Threeway Handshake

Threeway Handshake — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:01:49 -0800

Got to be many 35mm (or smaller) rolls on a large format. Looks like two separatr exposures: one for vertical and one for horizontal strips. Neat.

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:17:44 -0800

What they said. HOWEVER! It doesn't makes sense like that. The film should be transparent, right? So printing, the two images would overlap, but they don't. Hm. I suspect there may be shenanigans afoot. Are they perhaps woven digitally?

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:18:57 -0800

Oh! Unless the thing that holds the film in the camera is also a sort of weavy dealy that blocks out alternating bits of film.

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:24:55 -0800

...or it's woven after it's printed, in which case, every sprocket hole was cut out by hand. Gah!

By: smirkette

smirkette — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 06:03:39 -0800

I'm voting two exposures (you can see this in the consistency of tone all vertical and all horizontal strips). Re: transparency issue, perhaps lines the back of the film with something opaque before weaving them?

By: seanmpuckett

seanmpuckett — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 06:25:42 -0800

I'm going to say two exposures with a large format camera using strips of 35mm film on a custom film holder, printed just like that onto colour print paper, then the two final prints cut into strips and woven. FWIW I did some repro work for a woman who did something like this (two interwoven images) with magazine illustrations and it was tedious for her but not much more tedious than cross-stitch. It's a nice effect.