#david prifti

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David Prifti

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II Morte III 

David Prifti

c. 2008, tintype, unique wet plate collodion on metal

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David Prifti

David Prifti was a Photographer and teacher who sadly died in 2011 due to pancreatic cancer, he spent the last 15 years of his career experimenting with the earliest techniques of photography. He uses the traditional wet plate collision process along with liquid emulsion. The themes that ran throughout his work were; relationships, family, memories, rites of passage, age and death, his work was very personal. When it came to using wet plate and liquid emulsion photography, the materials he used were of those he collected such as broken slates, tin, ceramics, metal and wood. By using these objects he used them as an act of resurrection, to create something new - a reenactment of birth. As well as using old materials he would use liquid emulsion to put family portraits on top of the materials - paying homage to his ancestors. 

This image of Prifti’s is one where he used part of a wooden picket fence and used liquid emulsion to apply a family portrait to it. Within the image it love the tones and shades that come from placing an image on top of wood, along with the lines going down the image from the wooden panels. With regards to my own work, I could use pieces of driftwood to print images onto using liquid emulsion however the pieces I have collected so far are not suitable. 

The image above is entitled; Gaze which was taken in 2003 on a 12x12 inch emulsion image on a piece of metal plate. The piece of metal ha been guessed as being the bottom of an old tin of paint. The image was presented in once of his exhibitions focusing on decay and death, the piece of metal is withered away which is was he is trying to represent. All of his images are just so intriguing to look at and gives me much inspiration to experiment with liquid emulsion. 

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Randolph, David Prifti (b.1960/61 - 2011)

Study of the head of a young mulatto woman full face (probably Fanny Eaton), Frederick Sandys (b.1829-1904)

Fanny Eaton, 1859, Simeon Solomon

David Prifti worked with Victorian techniques in his photography, for Randolph he used a wet plate collodion process for the tintype portrait.

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Liquid emulsion on found material, by David Prifiti.  More from my coming book, Alternative Photographic Process:  Technique, History, and Creative Practice, due in early 2017.

[racheljump]

Live your life like Dave Prifti. This involves seeing the world, finding and wholeheartedly pursuing something you love, learning to laugh at oneself, owning a gorilla suit and wearing it on days other than Halloween. It means demanding effort and offering effort in return, loving your partner without equivocation, building a house, home and family and treating others with dignity and respect without worrying about shallow, meaningless nonsense things like clothes or appearance or standardized test scores. Spend your time offering compassion, building friendships and fighting for justice. Never lie to your friends, unless you’re sitting with them at a poker table. Fall into the embrace of your friends when you need them, and offer your own embrace when it is needed in return. Treat your children as the most precious people on earth. Encourage them to follow their dreams and fill them up with all the love that you can, and then treat other people’s children as if they were your own. Yes, live your life like Dave Prifti. Live with integrity, care for those less fortunate, offer the best of yourself. Leave the world better than you found it.

Andrei Joseph

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David Prifti