Artsy Editorial | Contemporary Photographers as Old World Craftsmen | Artsy: Unlike many disciplines that have been revolutionized by the digital age, photography is still deeply engaged in the processes and materials that pioneered its development. In a new group show at Gallery 270, “The 21st Century Handmade Photograph,” this fact is celebrated through the lens of six contemporary photographers—John Dugdale, Jefferson Hayman, Richard Kagan, Peter Liepke, Michael Massaia, and George Tice—who advance the various methods of producing analog photography. Works on view are alluring specimens that draw from techniques including toned silver gelatin, platinum/palladium, gum bichromate, and cyanotype. They remind us of the merits of these labor-intensive processes and their boundless potential for image-making, free from the digital world of Photoshop.
