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Light on Paper

Using only light, shade and photographic paper, these simple yet beautiful works recall pottery or poetry or even celestial bodies.

Photographs and text by Michael Jackson

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These compositions are created by directing light onto photo paper in the darkroom. No physical objects are photographed—it is all just light and shade.

The process of making them looks and feels more like pottery than photography.

—Michael Jackson

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