Cyanotypekatula

"Copes Bridge" by Gilbert Cope seems to be a kind of picture that could be in a scary move. Most cyanotypes do resemble something sort of haunted to me and i think it is really cool. Gilbert Cope used paper with this cyanotype, and one of the compositional techniques used very well in this cyanotype is leading lines. He uses the road and the river to lead your eyes to the bridge, which is the whole subject of the cyanotype. Christian Marclay uses the silhouette method of the cyanotypes to the max. by taking a bunch of tapes, and putting them on paper like that is very interesting. By using fill the frame techniques there really isn't a place in this cyanotype that is covered by tape. using negatives to put the white tapes more in the middle draws the eyes toward the middle, which i think was the goal of this artist. This cyanotype sort of takes you back to what it used to be like. This photograph can do that really well, a scruffy man with a beard and cane. The cyanotype emphasizes how much the man is going through, whatever he is doing that is. Claude Monet, using paper, could make this photo more than just a man. Even though the back round is blurred a bit, I think there is a certain texture to the mans face.