| Reference Number | 2016.1/E/48 |
| Level | File |
| Extent | 106 items |
| Title | Negatives related to Dye's period of experimentation using projection |
| Date | 1982-1983 |
| Description | Large bundle of negatives originally held in an Ilford photographic paper box marked on the front ‘Negatives 82/83’. Contains packets of glassine storage envelopes with negatives related to Dye's period of experimentation using projection and/or anamorphosis. Includes negatives of images used in projection accompanied by negatives of works in progress. The majority of envelopes have been marked by Dye with brief descriptions and/or titles. Includes negatives marked with the following titles: 'Profiles on Palette Table (Translation)' [/1]; 'Self-portrait on chair' [/2]; 'Lay figure (wrestle)' [/3]; 'Hand print Palette Table and chair' [/4]; 'Hand Print' [/5]; 'Initial model shots for painted room' [/6]; 'Linear Muscleman (with Sy and Me)' [/7]; 'Painted Room 3' [/8]; 'Images from Male Nude' [/9]; 'Handprint on Lay figure' [/10]; 'Séance' [/11]; 'Son of a Gun' [/12]; 'Lay figure in corner' [/13]; 'Shots from porn mags' [/14]; 'Wrestlers [(Insect)?] 2 views’ [/15]; 'Handprint (Wildbeast)' [/16]; 'Misc. shots from past work' [/17]; 'Hands on Torso' [/18]; 'Painted Room 1' [/19]; 'Shots of finished wrestlers' [/20]; and 'Painted Mask (Map)' [/21]. Accompanied by negatives originally held in an unlabelled glassine envelope. Includes anamorphic images of an eagle and a figure [floating in water] painted on to walls and a window [/22]. |
| Notes | According to Dye's notes on the method used in producing these works (2016.1/I/4/4), Dye projected a photographic negative onto a black background and traced round the projected image using white paint. This initial painting was photographed and the negative then projected onto black painted objects, mostly furniture. The image was traced on the painted objects using white paint and then photographed from various angles. Finally, selected negatives from these photographs were then projected onto black paper and traced using white paint. |
| Related Material | See 2016.1/D/42 for photographic prints of the images; 2016.1/E/47 for additional negatives; 2016.1/B/11 for drawings on paper resulting from Dye's experimentation; and 2016.1.I/4/4 for Dye's typescript notes on producing these works. |