Wounded Plates

Untitled (Spiked Hair Portrait) , 2004. 4 × 5 inch black glass ambrotype. Quinn Jacobson Note. The sitter’s profile is rendered with stark clarity against a neutral ground, while the radiating, sculptural hair disrupts the frame, producing a tension between stillness and kinetic form. The wet collodion process amplifies surface detail and tonal depth, allowing the image to oscillate between…