As you can see here, I keep working on 1930s Shanghai ladies with calligraphy. However, it seems like these photos are the same as my last critique. This time I used another kind of printing process, screening printing. When I looked at an 1930s Shanghai authentic advertisement carefully, it appears like it used screening printing, so I used half-tone pixelate to imitate the style of the authentic one. I tested many times with different half-tone angles. Fortunately, the results seem like the authentic one. Simultaneously, I used the same way to print some portraits as you can see on the bottom. When I used these pictures to compare with 1930s Shanghai movie stars’ portraiture, they look similar.
Here are questions:
- When you look at these photos, will they remind you of old Chinese photos? Why and why not?
- How to portray these 1930s Shanghai ladies with some old technologies?
- When I investigated the history of 1930s Shanghai advertisements, they were all paintings - not photography. I then ask myself, is it possible to combine photography with painting?
- I read the book of Alternative Photographic Processes, and the author’s name is Christopher James. I am intrigued to know what the Van Dyke Brown Printing is. Would it be good and effective to use an alternative, old printing technology to portray these 1930s Shanghai ladies?