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113 – roll 1 frame 30A One of a series of images with the theme 'girls on film' (prompted by the 1980 Duran Duran hit, although their content has virtually nothing to do with those lyrics) which span a variety of silver gelatin and digital formats. Here I am elevating the physical form of the photographic image itself to artefact; think Marshall McLuhan The Medium is the Massage 1967; think Joe Tilson and Diapositive or Transparency, Clip-o-Matic Lips, the Five Senses: Taste et al 1967-9. 44.5 x 29.7 cm on A3+ limited to 50 signed giclée prints Details of alternative sizes on request |
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My interest is in images of painted faces as caught on film and my fetish images have run aided and abetted by the media revolution. This is from the very first roll of 35mm film that I shot, in 1960. It’s another grainy image; in fact perversely, one thing I will miss using digital now is the grain visible in 1960s fast film stock like Tri-X and HP3. Silver halide in gelatin offered a reproducible if indirect method of capturing a photographic image. When digitized, even my earliest attempts at exploring my fascination with girls painting their faces can readily be colourised; I’m in control. The text reads: and a brush in her right; she was painting a broad, luscious, sharp curve around her already full lips. She had noticed in the mirror that he was watching her. She reloaded the brush frequently with the darker of the two pinks. Then with the other, paler colour she filled in the rest. Not content with that, she ladled on a thick layer of gloss. He was fascinated to see the detail, the precision and by the time she took over it. She pouted at herself in the mirror to inspect the result. ‘That should do the trick’. © Colin Robinson 1960-2006 |
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