Exercise in Abstraction. Pinhole photograph, gum bichromate. Copyright Katharine Thayer, 2000.

In this print, I didn't want any tonal scale, just one light tone and the paper white, because I was interested in the flat shapes; I was more interested in the shapes and their arrangement; the fact that the shapes organized themselves into a face was secondary to me. Hence the name.

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