Plants from Monet"s garden bathed in blue

The images of botanical and geological specimens from the garden ofClaude Monet, founder of French Impressionism, are part of an exhibitionby artist Pipo Nguyen Duy in Ha Noi.

 

An artwork by Pipo Nguyen Duy.

Entitled Another Expedition, the exhibition brings together600 cyanotype prints made by Duy when he was an artist-in-residence atMonet’s garden.

He researched the cyanotype technique, the monochromephotographic printing process that gave a cyan-blue print, which wasdeveloped by William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-77) and Sir John Herschel(1792-1871).

In 1842, Herschel discovered that ferric (iron) salts couldbe reduced to a ferrous state by light and then combined with othersalts to create a blue-and-white image.

Cyanotype is a contact print process that requires anegative film of the same size as the size of the print you want. Acyanotype with a blue image on a white background is obtained using anegative transparency. In order to obtain a pale white image on a bluebackground, a positive transparency must be used.

Duy patiently collects botanical specimens. He makes thephoto sensitive solution of a sensitiser and soaks the sensitiser intocotton-based watercolour paper. He also creates a negative image on atransparency with a laser printer, placing the negative over the dried,sensitised paper.

“Then the image is exposed to sunlight at different times ofthe day to create different shades of colours,” he said, adding that hefinally washes the image in water to develop.”

Born in Hue, Duy immigrated to the United States in 1975. Heearned a degree in Master of Arts in Photography and a Master of FineArts in Photography from the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. Heis now Professor of Art at Oberlin College, Ohio.

The exhibition will run until July 19 at L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien Street, Ha Noi. 

VN photo show at 10 hotels in town

Ten hotels in downtown HCMC have been picked as venues for displaying the most beautiful photos among 7,000 entries featuring Vietnam’s people and landscapes in the “Tan huong ban sac Viet” (Savour Vietnam) contest co-held by Saigontourist and Tuoi Tre newspaper.

Between June 19 and July 10, viewers can come to see the photos at Rex Hotel Saigon, Hotel Majestic Saigon, Caravelle Saigon Hotel, Hotel Continental Saigon and Grand Hotel Saigon. The exhibition will then move on to Pullman Saigon Centre, Novotel Saigon Centre, Liberty Saigon Centre, Liberty Cetral Saigon Riverside and Liberty Central Saigon Point, and last until August 3.

The exhibits are the award-winning photos of the Savour Vietnam competition, which got 1,765 photos and 545 essays from both local and overseas contestants.

On this occasion, the organizers issued the book “Savour Vietnam” in English and Vietnamese. The book features excellent essays and 200 beautiful photos depicting the beauty of nature, daily life, traditional customs, festivals and the spirit of Vietnamese people selected from the exhibition to promote tourism.

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Plants from Monet"s garden bathed in blue

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