Shadow Catchers at V and A London
Five international artists have changed the assumption that the camera is necessary to make a photograph. By casting shadows on light sensitive casting paper or chemically manipulating its surface the artists seem to capture the presence of objects, figures or glowing lights, giving exciting images and ofter surreal or abstract effects and symbolic content. These camera-less photo's were explored at the beginning of photography and have recently been re-discovered so I would imagine with a little help from modern technology the artists were able to achieve the end results.
Images made with a camera imply a documentary role, in contract camera-less photograph show what has never existed as they are always the 'the orginal' because they are not made from a negative.
The artists involved in this exhibition are Pierre Cordier, Susan Derges, Adam Fuss, Gary Fabian Miller and Floiris Neususs.
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