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Chad Coombs
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In his current series of Polaroids, the Canadian photographer Chad Coombs (born in 1982) creates photo collages, which combine the analog instant photography with the opportunities of digital image processing. Coombs’ womens' heads, which he finds in the internet and in magazines or portraits by himself, serve here as a basis. After the digital and analog revision, the pictures are photographed with a Polaroid camera. Subsequently, the artist works on these analog photographs with pen and paint-brush. The overpaintings and the scribings appear as white ornaments on the Polaroids’ mostly black backgrounds – and resemble therefore the international art nouveau around 1900. Furthermore, Coombs’ techniques of processing refer to another stylistic development at the turn of the century, as h...
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In his current series of Polaroids, the Canadian photographer Chad Coombs (born in 1982) creates photo collages, which combine the analog instant photography with the opportunities of digital image processing. Coombs’ womens' heads, which he finds in the internet and in magazines or portraits by himself, serve here as a basis. After the digital and analog revision, the pictures are photographed with a Polaroid camera. Subsequently, the artist works on these analog photographs with pen and paint-brush. The overpaintings and the scribings appear as white ornaments on the Polaroids’ mostly black backgrounds – and resemble therefore the international art nouveau around 1900. Furthermore, Coombs’ techniques of processing refer to another stylistic development at the turn of the century, as h...