Anna Tomczak

Tomczak's work intrigues me because it uses the polaroid transfer as well as other alternative processes and is able to give her images the right amount of mystical qualities through this. I love the colors that are in the picture which show that she obviously picks each prop and subject for the color scheme and contrast that is particular to these processes. Also her use of the borders and imperfections due to the processes add rather than take away from the images.

Biography:

"For over 15 years artist Anna Tomczak has utilized the 20×24 camera to make hauntingly beautiful constructions.   Drawing on a large personal collection of unique and eccentric artifacts Tomczak creates an assemblage that only exists in time long enough to be recorded on large format Polaroid film.   These timeless compositions are heightened by her use of the Polacolor Image Transfer technique.   This process interrupts the normal peel apart development by separating the negative from the positive film earlier than intended and placed instead in contact with wet watercolor paper.   This technique mutes the color and softens the image, producing a more dreamlike and antique sensibility."- 20x24 Studio (http://20x24studio.com/?page_id=119)


Quotes:


 1."The Polaroid large format (20 x 24) transfer process lends a tactile quality to the photo imagery, and a one of a kind work on paper." - Anna Tomczak


2. With the impressive 20 x 24 Polaroid camera, I am able to paint, construct, envision, fantasize, and 'transfer' my ideas onto the piece of paper...There is a certain richness of color, combined with the visual clarity achieved with this camera and process, that I intend to explore as thoroughly as possible." - Anna Tomczak

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