Solarization (photography)
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In analog photography, solarization is the effect of tone reversal observed in cases of extreme overexposure of the photographic film in the camera. Most likely, the effect was first observed in lands
Photograph exhibiting Solarization effect: the sun appears black.
Minor White
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Minor Martin White was an American photographer, theoretician, critic, and educator.
Solarization (photography)
…first observed in landscape photographs including the sun. The sun, instead of being the whitest spot in the image, turned black or grey. For instance, Minor White's photograph of a winter scene, The Black Sun 1955, was a result of the shutter of his camera freezing in the open position, producing severe overexposure…
Minor White by Robert Haiko 1973
Two iterations of Power Spot (1970). White flipped the negative vertically between the first and the second version.