Dana Dunham manages to recreate a late nineteenth century gloss for his very twenty-first century portraits. These portraits are huge and created with a specific process:
The double exposure is made in camera using one negative. The liquid emulsion is brushed onto watercolor paper under the red lights of the darkroom, and then exposed with the photographic negative. The darkroom chemistry is brushed on after the exposure has been made and is applied in a fashion that has become very natural to my intuition as a craftsman. The variations of the brush strokes of the emulsion and the painterly qualities of the chemistry dripping down the photograph presents to the viewer an image that is not only photographic, but also inherently related to printmaking and painting.
A Provincetowner in the summers, he asked me to sit for one. It's after the jump.
The Dish 