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Jan Kapoor Photography
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Ex Libris Series

The Ex Libris Series is mainly autobiographical, reflecting some of my long-time interests: art, music, nature, history, spirituality, as well as favorite books from my childhood. Books related to the theme of each image form an important part of the composition. In addition to these books and other relevant items, I utilize old family photographs, scanned, printed and cut out, then placed into the composition.
In order to keep the composition as simple as possible, I contain the still life within a rectangular wooden box, whose shape is evoked by my use of a 5x7 wooden pinhole camera, oriented vertically.
The alternative printing processes I use include platinum-palladium, cyanotype, Van Dyke Brown, and various combinations of these processes, some of which are then toned in tea and/or hand colored.
In the final presentation, book pages are scanned from old or facsimile books, inverted to white on black in Photoshop and used as the background for the hand-printed still life image, which is placed on a scanned print of an old book cover.