Stephen Livick | |
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Born | Allerton-Bywater, West Yorkshire | February 11, 1945
Nationality | Canadian |
Education | self-taught |
Known for | Canadian photographic artist and printmaker |
Spouse | Karen Johns (m. 1974) |
Stephen Livick (born February 11, 1945) is an innovative photographic artist and printmaker living in London, Ontario. His career dates from 1974 as a full-time photographer. For him, the real magic began in the dark room.[1] He mined the potential of photographic technology.[2][3]
In 1974, he invented a photographic printing process that combined Laser Techniques and Gum Bichromate, wedding modern technology with historic procedure.[4][5][6] Using his new way of printing photography, he could make images very large in size, even eight by 12 feet (perhaps a first for Canada) as in his Kolkata series. They have a distinctive, rich effect with soft, muted, mysterious colour, and have the "qualities of paintings".[7] He used the new technique often in his photography shows, one of which was called a "dazzling breakthrough" by Maclean's magazine.[8]
Livick also produced gelatine, silver, cyanotype and platinum prints.[8] He was a meticulous craftsman, faithful to external reality, but enhanced. His gift as an artist, besides his printing technique, was a "capacity for finding the brooding presence lurking inside objects and people...."[5]
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