My Song, Your Song

by Rebecca Hackemann

“These camera-less wet collodion (tintype) photograms on metal speak to our cultural and personal nostalgia for lost technologies’ cultural tropes such as the homemade cassette tape or the compact CD. This process – the wet collodion - reflects the subject matter by using an even older process to talk about process itself. The work centers on the disappearing methods of analog technology in populist and professional areas of various fields - music, photography, the sciences and even the home. Camera-less photography is often read as the ultimate rejection of the retinal image plane (and the camera’s ability to represent), questioning it as a language, emerging from 1970s conceptual work.”