Mordançage
An experimental darkroom process that eats away parts of a silver print with chemicals. Jean-Pierre Sudre developed it in the 1960s, producing ghostly, peeling, corroded black-and-white images.
Spot it
- 01Lifting, bleached emulsion
- 02Smoky black tendrils
- 03Brown-black eroded patches
Why it happens
A copper-based bleach chemically attacks the silver image, so shadow areas partly dissolve and the gelatin emulsion lifts, leaving deposits and relief textures.
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