The essential tool of the photographic process is not the camera but the light-sensitive layer. László Moholy-Nagy
With the advent of photography in 1839, painting underwent a radical transformation. Nowadays, the digital process is revolutionizing photography. The chemigram, fusion of painting and photography, is most likely the ultimate adventure of gelatin silver bromide. Pierre Cordier
Invented in 1956 by Pierre Cordier, the chemigram* combines the physics of painting (varnish, wax, oil) and the chemistry of photography (photosensitive emulsion, developer, fixer); without a camera, without an enlarger, and in full light *.
* Definition and terms chemigram in English, Dutch & Flemish, Chemigramm in German, chimigramma in Italian, chimigramme in French (1958), quimigrama in Spanish & in Portuguese; photo-chemigram (1963), auto-chemigram (1979), localizing product are by Pierre Cordier.
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