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The camera is the size of a small room, in which the artists pins direct colour positive paper (known as dye destruction, Cibachrome or Ilfachrome) to the back wall and views the image, much as inside a camera obscura. An image cast by a lens fixed to the front wall is projected onto the paper and the resulting exposed sheet is fed directly into a print processing machine connected to the  walk-in camera / dark room.  The fact that this process is a direct positive on a large scale, with no print enlargement from a negative or transparency, results in an image of astounding clarity, detail and lack of film-grain.  The effect is almost hyper real.\r\n\r\nUnlike in most conventional photography, objects and people are brought to the immovable camera and placed and arranged in front.  He also works outside the convention of a photographic sequence or series, but in a cohesive grouping of singular images. Learoyd's seemingly simple or restrained compositional arrangements belie complex conceptual and philosophical ideas, many of which question the nature of optics and the practice of photography itself.  The  chosen subject matter however does not overtly attempt to fulfil an externalised cultural or theoretical brief, but carries its message initially through sheer visual impact.","physicalDescription":"A large-scale colour photograph of a seated nude woman with her right arm resting on a stool to her side.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Richard Learoyd","id":"A26981"},"association":{"text":"photographer","id":"x43821"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"photographic paper","id":"AAT14190"}],"techniques":[{"text":"photography","id":"AAT54225"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Dye destruction print","categories":[{"text":"Photographs","id":"THES48910"},{"text":"Portraits","id":"THES48906"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2016JG3556"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"A","id":"THES304204"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"photograph","id":"AAT46300"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"2014","earliest":"2014-01-01","latest":"2014-12-31"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Purchased through the generosity of Pierre Brahm","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"121.7","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"image","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"172.6","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"image","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"The photograph was acquired directly from the artist.\r\n\r\nRichard Learoyd (born 1966) makes photographs inside a room-sized camera obscura. Over the last ten years, he has perfected this unconventional process in which an image is exposed directly onto photographic paper inside the room. 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These diptychs challenge the supremacy\r\nof the single portrait image that tries to capture the essence\r\nof character. Instead, two images suggest that there is infinite\r\nvariety and subtlety even within similarity.\n\r\nDye destruction print\r\nPurchased through the generosity of Pierre Brahm\r\nMuseum no. E.617, 616-2015","date":{"text":"24/10/2015-14/2/2016","earliest":"2015-10-24","latest":"2016-02-14"}}],"partNumbers":["E.617-2015"],"accessionNumberNum":"617","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":2015,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-08-13","recordCreationDate":"2015-09-02","availableToBook":true}}