An artist can use a camera in a similar way as brushes, canvas, and easels are used for painting.  At the turn of the century, photographers used a method to develop the photographs in which silver salts were used to expose the images on the paper.  The more paper that was developed, the more silver found in the solution.  The higher amounts of silver found in the solution gives the developed image a more luminous effect.  At the end of the development process, the photographer was left with a rich, warm, glowing black and white photo.  

We have chosen this name for the gallery because the photographs you will view are a simple and intriguing intricate matrix of visual experiences.  The Silver Salt gallery contains black and white photos  that Mike composed in the mid 1960's, throughout the 1970's, and into the early 1980's.  Mike used several different cameras to capture these images.  One camera was a Yashica-D-2.25 camera with Kodak Tri-X film.  Mike used several different f stops and shutter speeds for the images captured with the Yashica camera.  A second camera was also used and that was an Ansco box camera with Kodak Plus-X film.  The last camera used was a Hassanblaum 500-2.25 with Kodak Tri-X film.  All of the images were all printed on Agfa-Gevaert Brovira number 5 paper, digitized, and transferred to poster bond paper by an inkjet system.  Please feel free to email Mike at mike@domanicoartstudios.com if you would like to discuss the techniques or photographs in further detail.

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