Portfolio 5, Painting with Light Projection Photography with Kodachrome Transparencies by John Neville Cohen
The Magic Lantern, reversal film images.

These images were all created by John Neville Cohen using his unique
Painting with Light projection photography techniques and Kodachrome transparency film.

John loved Kodachrome, not for making polite little prints, but for blasting his photos onto a giant screen! What he did not love were the unavoidable intruders of reality: electric wires, phone cables, and other visual gatecrashers that insisted on ruining his perfect holiday landscapes.

Then came a lucky accident. While setting up his projector one day, screen still folded away, an image landed on a pair of curtains. Suddenly the portrait looked transformed, textured, and so intriguing! That set off a spark of curiosity and sent John experimenting: projecting images onto anything that would hold still, then photographing the results. That is how, in the late 1950s, his exciting unique analogue Projection Photography technique was born, although it became technically complicated, and decades ahead of its time, his creations were also striking, and artistic.

Note: The original Kodachrome transparencies are far higher in quality than these reproductions.

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