Escape From Photography, Mark Bell and Denise Hawrysio, Mercer Union, Toronto, 1999
Figure and Lamp, c-prints, 21” x 14” (54cm x 36cm), dry mounted,1997
Figure and Lamp (2), c-prints, 21” x 14” (54cm x 36cm), dry mounted,1997
White Dress and Lamp, c-prints, 21” x 14” (54cm x 36cm), dry mounted,1997
Women sitting in White Dress, c-prints, 21” x 14” (54cm x 36cm), dry mounted,1997
Floating Gallery, Winnipeg, installation, 2001
A Catalogue of Errors is a large body of photographic prints based on technical anomalies found amongst the negatives I inherited from my father in 1990.
These negatives drew my attention because of the different puzzling photographic malfunctions and in this work/series as there was a flash/shutter problem with the camera. Indeed, some images only became apparent when printed, making my role one of forensic investigation.
The anomalies within each photograph acknowledge the materiality of analogue film, particularly in this sequence whereby, although it may look like a collage of two images, the flash/shutter problem resulted in two different exposure in the one frame.
