Laptopogram-tastic!

laptopogram

Fancy having a go at producing a photo that doesn’t require a camera? No, I haven’t lost the plot, of course you can. All you need is a laptop (or a TV, or a mobile phone, or one of those new-fangled iPad malarkies, or any electronic gadget that involves a screen and a backlight, really) and some photographic paper. How cool is that?

You hold the photographic paper to the screen, expose it briefly, and then develop it. You should be left with an image of whatever was on the screen. I have to say it again: How cool is that?

Aditya Mandayam dreamed up the process when on a residency with Benetton at their lab, Fabrica, in Treviso. And I thought Benetton was where my Ma bought me clothes when I was younger. Want to learn more? About laptopograms that is, not Benetton. Go here.

(Thanks Photojojo!)

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Anonymous
Anonymous

Cool idea but not the first time someone tried to marry digital with analogue print making. Many alternate print making techniques like platinum and palladium prints start as a digital capture and are then transfered to a transparency to be contact printed. You should check them out - they produce very high quality photographs.

Anonymous
Anonymous

For those using Windows rather Unix or Linux, I wrote a step-by-step guide on how to acquire a laptopogram. See here:
http://makeprojects.com/Project/Laptopogram/1429/1

Even if you use *nix the guide might be useful to see what you need.

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