Alison Rossiter's abstract photographs are created without a camera on vintage, expired photo paper. The artist experiments with the unique qualities of discontinued gelatin silver papers that she has collected from throughout the 20th century, utilizing such core elements of photography as ligh... Read more
Alison Rossiter’s abstract photographs are created without a camera on vintage, expired photo paper. The artist experiments with the unique qualities of discontinued gelatin silver papers that she has collected from throughout the 20th century, utilizing such core elements of photography as light and chemicals. Sometimes exposing latent images and tones, sometimes creating her own images by dipping the paper into the developer with controlled technique, Rossiter reintroduces unpredictability into a process that is now commonly computerized and pays tribute to the intrinsic qualities of photographic materials.
Alison Rossiter’s photographs are in the collections of major public institutions, including the Art Institute of Chicago; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Milwaukee Art Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Ms. Rossiter was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1953 and currently lives and works in the New York metropolitan area.
