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Visitors to the Prairie Village Museum had an opportunity June 5 to have their portraits made using a process more familiar to their ancestors in the mid-1800s.
This rare collection of experimental photographs have been part of a private collection for 50 years but are now set to go under the hammer where it is expected they could fetch as much as £6,000.
Artist Uses Wet Plate Photography to Portray Native American Indians–and the Photos Are Stunning
Stumbling across an archaic photography technique known as “wet plate,” artist Shane Balkowitsch began a 20-year project to portray the Northern Plains Native Americans in the modern day. The nostalgic process would allow the North Dakotan photographer to display their spirit, pride, and enduring culture in a manner like no other technique.
Balkowitsch’s series of 1,000 portraits called “Northern Plains Native Americans: A Modern Wet Plate Perspective” is being donated in its entirety to the State Historical Society of North Dakota.
Inspired by photographer Edward Curtis, whose dry plate photography immortalized Native American culture at the turn of the 20th century, Balkowitsch’s first series subject was Ernie LaPointe, the great-grandson of Sitting Bull. The image remains the artist’s favorite to this day. It set the tone for his future endeavors.
Woman exposing old-school photo technique from old North Dakota schoolhouse
Kary Janousek is now one of a handful of photographers who operate collodion wet-plate studios in North Dakota. She is the newest of the lot and the only female. Her business, High Hat Portraiture, is based out of a classroom-turned-studio in an old schoolhouse in Mapleton, N.D. 11:00 am, Mar. 3, 2021 ×
Kary Janousek readies to take a view camera plate image in her studio space in Mapleton.
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MAPLETON, N.D. From the moment that wispy outline of her friend’s face emerged on the glass, Kary Janousek was hooked.