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Barbara Astman fonds
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[Polaroid Creative Techniques]

File consists of instructional and guide booklets, brochures, and related documents regarding creative techniques for using and manipulating polaroid film and creating image transfers. Also includes an invitation to the opening reception for the exhibition, Barbara Astman: Revisiting Red, as well as an emulsion transfer on aluminized paper, a polaroid image in a frame reading "got milk?" along the bottom, and two skeletonized leaves that were used by Astman in photographs.

Polaroid Collage - Peeling Apart Polaroids

File consists of collages, Polaroid photographs and transparencies, newspaper and magazine clippings, and other paper ephemera and graphic material used by Astman as collage elements, such as printouts and photocopies. Some graphic material has been taped together and cut into various shapes, or scraped and scratched to form collage and overlay components. Also includes an instructional printout from Polaroid's website regarding tips and techniques for using Polaroid P/N films.

Polaroid Wet Transfer

File consists of Polaroid prints and image transfers, predominantly emulsion lifts, showing the results of a wet image transfer process. Includes multiple transferes of the same image of a woman facing away from the camera, which Astman also used in a separate artwork series. One of the image transfers is on a glass plate, which Astman

Photo Decals

File consists of "The Deadline" (1996), a comic created by Helene Astrom (Contemporary Photography Department at OCAD), a production still from Blackmail (1929), directed by Alfred Hitchcock, two emulsion transfers and instructional documents regarding image transfers.

[Cyanotype Samples]

File consists of cyanotype prints, as well as slides, negatives, transparencies and related graphic material used in the process of creating the cyanotypes, including two radiographs (x-ray photographs) of a human skull, 2 plastic bags with logos, and laser printouts of digital images. These samples and materials were used by Astman during teaching, especially regarding historical processes of photography.

[Cyanotype Samples]

File consists of cyanotype prints, as well as negatives, transparencies and related graphic material used in the process of creating the cyanotypes, including two plastic bags with logos and b&w laser printouts of digital images. These samples and materials were used by Astman during teaching, especially regarding historical process of photography.

[Cyanotype Sample]

File consists of a cyanotype of two women reclining and a black and white print of the same image. These samples were used by Astman during teaching.

[Vandyke Samples]

File consists of samples of vandyke brown photoprints as well as two transparencies of the image used to create the vandykes, which are attached together with adhesive. These samples were used by Astman during teaching, especially regarding historical photography processes.

My Last 2 Classes – May/June 2021 Online

File consists of records relating primarily to two OCAD U courses taught online by Astman in 2021, Experimental Processes and Camera Art. Includes course overviews, teaching notes, and related documents regarding curriculum and communications for the course. Also includes a USB drive related to Astman’s teaching records, titled "ASTMAN," which contains records relating to Astman’s courses at OCAD from approximately 2012-2021, primarily Camera Art, Experimental Processes, and Historical Processes. The USB contains ca. 798 files, with the majority of files being PowerPoint presentation files (pptx) relating to Asman’s presentation slides and student presentation slides. The remaining files are a mix of textual records and image files relating to Astman’s academic career.

Freezer Paper for Digital Printing

File consists of instructional teaching documents regarding transferring images onto fabric using freezer paper, four prints of image on fabric pieces, and samples of freezer paper. Also includes one colour print on tissue paper.

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