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Barbara Astman fonds File
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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.

Acetone

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 showing multiple examples of acetone image transfers, alongside the graphic material used to create the transfer and Astman's notes. The prints in this file exemplify the results of a variety of image transfer processes, including acetone transfers.

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

[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 vandyke brown photoprints as well as two transparencies of the image used to create the vandykes, which are attached to each other with adhesive. These samples were used by Astman during teaching, especially relating to her lectures on 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.

2020/21 Retirement

File consists of correspondence, notes, and related documents regarding Astman's voluntary retirement from OCAD U.

Glass - Handmade Nagative - Using High Contrast Film[…]

File consists of an experimental collage made of pieces of negative transparencies that have been cut into various shapes and pressed between two pieces of glass, used as a sample in Astman's teaching. Astman sourced the materials for this sample by taking discarded pieces of large-format negatives from students' work, shaping them and placing them together between glass to create a collage. This piece was shown to students as an example of a work that can be created using materials that might otherwise have been discarded.

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