Trays as Portraits of the Artists

John Cyr, “Ansel Adam’s Developer Tray” (all images courtesy powerHouse Books)

•  A little bit of Photography history 
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• Developer Trays, a new book from powerHouse Books that brings together Cyr’s photographs of trays from 80 artists including Ansel Adams, Aaron Siskind, Lillian Bassman, Joel-Peter Witkin, Sally Mann, Elliott Erwitt, and even Cyr himself. Photographs from the book are also on display at the PowerHouse Arena in Dumbo. Cyr has long worked as a darkroom printer and although those very spaces of chemistry and process are fading he saw a value in examining this artifact.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   Origional Article
  by Allison Meier on March 20, 2014