- LA.SC171.S1
- Series
- 1975-2021
Part of Elizabeth Chitty fonds
Part of Elizabeth Chitty fonds
Part of Barbara Astman fonds
File consists of Astman's photo ID card for OCAD U, attached to a fabric lanyard. A coin on a key ring is also attached to the lanyard.
Part of Barbara Astman fonds
File consists of correspondence from Nancy Jane Friedland and OCAD U regarding Astman’s retirement from teaching.
Part of Barbara Astman fonds
File consists of image transfer prints on a variety of materials including paper, a copper plate, acrylic sheets, and a piece of fabric. Also includes a visual aid regarding acetone image transfers, which contain multiple small examples of image transfers alongside the graphic material used to create the transfer and notes describing the steps taken. Prints show the results of a variety of image transfer processes, such as acetone transfers, and were used by Astman in teaching related to this process and technique.
Creative Bleaching of Photographs
Part of Barbara Astman fonds
File consists of an instructional teaching document, paper, and three latex gloves relating to the creative bleaching of photographs.
[Polaroid Creative Techniques]
Part of Barbara Astman fonds
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
Part of Barbara Astman fonds
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.
Part of Barbara Astman fonds
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
Part of Barbara Astman fonds
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.
Part of Barbara Astman fonds
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.