| DavidJohn Lotto |
Embracing the Wounds (Female Nude with Lilies)
2005/2005
Platinum palladium on Japanese Gampi paper
on original mount
19 x 16 in. (483 x 406 mm)
Editioned 1/10 and signed in pencil on mount. Gambi is a handmade, tissue-like paper from Japan that is extremely fragile.Born in 1947, Davidjohn Lotto was a self-taught in photography. The California-based photographer made photographs for over 20 years. He assisted Oliver Gagliani in his Nevada workshops for three years, teaching silver-based technique, but ultimately found his own distinct creative voice in an alternative process--hand-coated Platinum/Palladium.He preferred to use a variety of older lenses, including a soft focus lenses to capture his images. His work has appeared in B&W Magazine, View Camera Magazine and Zen Bell.Lotto passed away on January 15, 2014. He was 67 years old.
Price: $1,500 (ref. 9778)