Hans-Christian Schink - 1 h

The series 1h uses the effect of the so-called solarization, that was first described by William Henry Jackson in 1857. Solarization distorts a photographic image through extreme overexposure to light, which then triggers an exact reversal of chemical processes on the light-sensitive layer of the negative. Light that is too strong causes the darkening process to weaken, so that bright areas, in this case the sun, ultimately appear dark in the final positive.

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