For the second project in my ART 568 class, I was tasked with creating silver nitrate salt prints. While learning the process and looking at examples, I became interested in the work of a late 19th century German photographer, Hermann Schnauss. Schnauss is known for having performed experiments with using electricity to produce what he called "electrographs," creating stunning salt prints as a result.
I decided that I wanted to recreate the work that Schnauss was doing, so I asked for help from the KSU physics department. Using a Wimshurst Machine and sheets of film, I was able to create the images below, presented with a scan of the salt print as well as a scan of the original film.
