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Dye destruction print
Action Photo I (From Pictures of Chocolate) Clio (Portrait of Dorothea Smart) David and Butch Crying, Tin Pan Alley, New York City Invocation Misty and Joey at Hornstrasse Nothing to Loose XII ('Bodies of Experience') Phalia (Portrait of Alice Walker) Polyhymnia (Portrait of Ysaye Barmell) Spring/Summer Prada Campaign Spring/Summer Prada Campaign 1997 Spring/Summer Prada Campaign 1998 Spring/Summer Prada Campaign 1998 Terpsichore Untitled (Eye) Urania (Portrait of Lubaina Himid) Vessel (detail) Vessel (detail)
Misty and Joey at Hornstrasse
Zoom inMisty and Joey at Hornstrasse, 1992
Nan Goldin, born 1953
Dye destruction print
Dye destruction prints are made using print material which has at least three emulsion layers, each one sensitised to a different primary colour - red, blue or green - and each one containing a dye related to that colour. During exposure to a colour transparency, each layer records different information about the colour make-up of the image. During printing, the dyes are destroyed or preserved to form a full colour image in which the three emulsion layers are perceived as one. Dye destruction prints are characterised by vibrant colour. The process used to be called Cibachrome: it is now known as Ilfochrome.
E.53-1997 © Nan Goldin, courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery