TPS Exhibtions > Alternative Process

Alternative Process
A traveling exhibition juried by Christopher James: Author and Professor and Chair, The Art Institute of Boston.

ALTERNATIVE PROCESSES: A TRAVELING EXHIBITION
Amateur and professional photographers were invited to submit slides of their alternative processes works to the Texas Photographic Society (TPS), for the group’s Alternative Processes Traveling Exhibition. The Exhibition will travel throughout Texas for 2 years and be available for national exhibition sites.

Christopher James, and author of the Book of Alternative Photographic Processes will jury the competition. His book was the Winner of The Golden Light Technical Book of the Year Award in 2001. An exhibit catalogue will be published with exhibiting photographers receiving three copies and entrants receiving one. The catalogue will be sent to photography magazines, curators, museums and photography collector's.

Eligibility: All prints made using an alternative process are eligible and the exhibition is open to all subject matter. Examples of acceptable processes are albumen, collotype, kallitype, Lazertran, anthotype, Ziatype, carbon, Argyrotype, cyanotype, daguerreotype, gum bichromate, salted paper, photogravure, platinum and palladium, van dyke, hand applied emulsions, wet-plate collodion, and combinations of all of the above. No digital, c-prints, Polaroid® or solvent transfers, or gelatin silver prints will be accepted unless combined with an alternative process.

If your work is accepted:

1. Send one exhibition print for each accepted photograph.

2. Prints must be mounted and overmatted using white matte board 16˝x20˝ with at least 2˝ of border showing on all sides of the print. Maximum print size is 12˝x16˝. Smaller prints, 3˝x5˝ for example, are acceptable as long as they are mounted and overmatted to the 16˝x20˝ size. TPS frames all images.

3. Print your name, address, telephone numbers (work and home), and sales amount on the back of each print accepted. If your print is Not-For-Sale (NFS) state so, but list a dollar amount for insurance. If you do not list a dollar amount, the art work will be listed as Not-For-Sale.

4. Include return postage for prints to be shipped back to you after the exhibition. Prints WITHOUT postage will not be returned. Prints will be returned in the container in which they were received. Do NOT frame the print. Do NOT use peanuts.

5. Send $5 for each print accepted to defray exhibition expense.

6. The print must reach us by November 29, 2008. Send your print to: Texas Photographic Society 6338 N. New Braunfels # 174 San Antonio TX 78209 Questions? Call Clarke at 210-824-4123.

Additional Information:

Sales

TPS encourages the sale of exhibited photographs. The commission charged will be 50% of the sales price.

Liability
TPS will exercise all due care in handling slides and prints, but will not be responsible for loss or damage or replacement. Please submit duplicate slides.

Reproduction
TPS retains the right to display, project and reproduce work accepted for this exhibition for publicity and promotional purposes only. Individual photographers retain Copyrights to their individual works.

Alternative Processes Calendar
September 23
Entries due in San Antonio, TX.

October 31
Notice of accepted entries sent and posted on the TPS website.

November 29
Prints due in San Antonio, TX.

January
Alternative Processes exhibit opens in Odessa at the Options Gallery at Odessa College. Date to be determined.

Juror's Pre-Jurying Comments:
This is such an amazing and exciting time in the history of photography. As it has done since the beginning, the medium is making a great sea change, a transition from the comfortable way it has been, incorporating the best of its traditions and history in concert with the new digital technologies. As a result, alternative process image making is undergoing, in a very real way, a renaissance.

The creative opportunities of alternative photographic processes have been, until recently, relatively unexplored territory for the contemporary artist… that’s changing rapidly. Alternative process image making has never been so popular and as the technical democracy of digital imaging dominates the majority of the medium, visually creative artists and photographers, of all ages, and disciplinary backgrounds, are actively exploring modes of photographic expression that are not solely dependent on commercially packaged materials. These artists are formulating, and hand applying, their own sensitizers, and emulsions, and returning to the exploratory roots of light-writing. They are embracing the possibilities of the hand-made print; the marriage of nineteenth century craft, science, and romanticism in concert with twenty-first century technologies and conceptual perceptions.

About the Juror:
Christopher James is an internationally known artist and photographer whose paintings and alternative process images have been exhibited in galleries and museums in this country and abroad. His work has been published and shown extensively, including shows in The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The George Eastman House, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. His book, The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes (Delmar, 2001) has received unprecedented critical acclaim, was the winner of The Golden Light Technical Book of the Year award, and has become the standard reference text in alternative process image making. His second, and significantly expanded, edition of The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes: 2nd Edition was released in February 2008. Christopher, after 13 years at Harvard University, is currently Professor and Chair of Photography at The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University.

Alternative Processes: A Traveling Exhibition, 2008
Accepted Entries