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| Jan van Leeuwen was
born in 1932 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. A salesman, office
manager, and buyer for trading companies, his early photographs
were images of the products he represented. In 1986, he began
to seriously study photography and attended a workshop devoted
to self-portraits. The workshop greatly impacted his photography
and from that point forward the self-portrait became his main subject. A
well-known Dutch photo-collector introduced van Leeuwen to the cyanotype process. In The Roman Arena in Arles, France, van Leeuwen uses the cyanotype process to capture an architectural scene. Even with the monotone color of blue, the photographer is able to achieve the subtleties of tonality in the shadows and light on the structure. Unlike cyanotypes, where objects are placed onto the chemically-treated paper, the photographer photographed the scene with a large-format camera and contact-printed the negative with the cyanotype positive to create a detailed image.  (For Grades 4-6) What compositional design elements do you see in this image? (ex. shapes, line, texture, pattern, etc.) How would the image change if it was in black and white? How would the image change if it was in color? |
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