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Unmentionables
by Amy Yang
I used to spend a lot of time in darkrooms. There was something about the
red light, the fumes, the fixer-splattered radio — and perhaps the high
percentage of hot men majoring in photography — that made the process
of developing and printing intoxicating on every level.
Amy Yang¹s Unmentionables reminds us of those chemical-saturated
afternoons. For the series, she took photograms of twenty women¹s underwear.
The photogram is a technique for making a photograph without a camera or
lens by putting the panties atop light-sensitive paper. Because there¹s a
lot of lace and see-through material involved, there are some pretty
midtones. And of course anything that involves panties on darkroom surfaces
just makes me all kinds of nostalgic. — Ada Calhoun
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