"Poultry Suite began simply as a nod to my father and his obsession with breeding chickens while living in a suburban environment," says Jean Pagliuso. For this project, she imposes formal portraiture on chickens, taking close-up photographs of more than twenty types of chickens, emphasizing the unique shape, plumage, and expression of each.
Inspired by old temple rubbings, Pagliuso chose to print the images using a hand-applied silver gelatin emulsion brushed on handmade Japanese rice paper. Each paper is first sized and then coated twice with a photographic emulsion and dried between applications. It is then ready for traditional exposure and development.
Photograph
Hand applied silver emulsion to Taji Mulberry Paper.
23.75 x 19.25 in
60.3 x 48.9 cm
"Poultry Suite began simply as a nod to my father and his obsession with breeding chickens while living in a suburban environment," says Jean Pagliuso. For this project, she imposes formal portraiture on chickens, taking close-up photographs of more than twenty types of chickens, emphasizing the unique shape, plumage, and expression of each.
Inspired by old temple rubbings, Pagliuso chose to print the images using a hand-applied silver gelatin emulsion brushed on handmade Japanese rice paper. Each paper is first sized and then coated twice with a photographic emulsion and dried between applications. It is then ready for traditional exposure and development.
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