JCC on the Palisades

Waltuch Gallery

DURING THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2001

THE FACES OF  CHINA POLAROID TRANSFER IMAGES

RACHEL BANAI

Images are just the beginning of this voyage into the Chinese soul. Women on the bank of the river exercising Tai Chi, a royal summer palace cover by snow, and an old man reading a newspaper, are among the images that reflect day to day life in China. The images convey the intersection between East and West, between black-and-white and color, and between the Chinese Old etching techniques and a sophisticated Polaroid Transfer technique of photography.

Image transfer is the process of peeling apart a Polacolor negative and transferring the positive onto a non-photographic surface called a receptor sheet. There are several ways to create images to transfer. The most common way is to copy a conventional or instant 35mm slide onto Polaroid film.

Polacolor image transfers offer the artist an almost limitless ability to transform the photographic image. The process is capable of producing fully rendered images with a beautiful softness as well as partially reworking ranges from soft accentuation of color to bold combinations of photography and painting. By fusing many media, the image transfer process possesses no creative limits.

This show is a summary of work in progress that has been going on in China for the last three years.

The price for each framed Polaroid transfer is $300.

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