REPLICATION

This series of photographs was intended as primary source material for paintings that never materialised. I was studying Drawing and Painting at Glasgow School of Art at the time 1987-1991. I took photographs of people and places that were important to me. I made prints as working tools from 35mm colour film negatives.

This sequence of images are medium format digital photographs of photographs I shot and printed circa 1992 from film negatives. Captured as they were after decades in storage complete with dust and fingerprints. The intent was to photograph a photograph. The replication leads to a transformation of the image. It becomes something entirely other to the original despite sharing the same information.

Replication-the process by which genetic material or a living organism gives rise to a copy of itself.
Images in sequence:

1/2 - Morag Findlay. 1989 Glasgow.

3 - Alasdair Wallace. 1992 Edinburgh.

4 - Anastasia Lennon. 1992 Edinburgh.

5 - Glasgow looking North from Garnet Hill area 1988.

6/7 - Bessie and Wullie Steel my grandparents. Army ex-servicemen’s sheltered housing Bathgate 1988.

Photography Malcolm Brown 1988-2022.