oliver_nowak

Try making a "straight" B/W print--let it dry. Then take a new sheet of photo paper. Dip it into developer for three minutes. Pull it out, put it under the enlarger. Place the dry print on top. Expose to light. Develop, stop, fix. Now you have an internegative. Let dry. Use pencil on the "paper" side to control highlights, shadows and any detail.

Take a new sheet of paper. Stick into developer for three minutes. Pull it out and put it under the enlarger. Place the internegative on top. Expose to light. Develop, stop, fix. There's your low-detail, pictorial print.

 

Or.

 

make a pinhole camera. make sure the pinhole is "ragged" so it diffuses the light and makes the image less sharp.

 

I'm sure there is more than 1000 years of darkroom expertise in this forum alone who would know even better solutions...

You don't have to be that literal.

 

Ever read a comic book without text like "Flood" by Eric Drooker or "Dead End" by Thomas Ott?

 

Or look at Chris Marker's "La Jetée".

 

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use the tiling function on a photocopier at kinkos. there was a guy in boston who did exactly that and produced a 3 story "wall" of a picture of his friend. there's also a blurb about it (complete with picture)in "The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes" by Christopher James.