Alison Rossiter
{{short description|American artist}}
Alison Rossiter (born 1953) is an American photographer. She attended the Rochester Institute of Technology and the Banff Centre School. In 2007 Rossiter moved from traditional photography to creating photograms from vintage photographic papers.{{cite web |title=Alison Rossiter: Revive |url=https://www.lightwork.org/archive/alison-rossiter-revive/ |website=Light Work |access-date=15 July 2021 |date=1 July 2014}}{{cite web |title=Alison Rossiter |url=https://www.widewalls.ch/artists/alison-rossiter |website=Widewalls |access-date=15 July 2021 |language=en}} Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art,{{cite web|url=https://www.whitney.org/artists/17118|title=Alison Rossiter|website=www.whitney.org|access-date=2019-04-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410065625/https://www.whitney.org/artists/17118|archive-date=2019-04-10|url-status=live}} the National Gallery of Canada{{cite web|url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/alison-rossiter|title=Alison Rossiter|website=www.gallery.ca|access-date=2019-05-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410112501/https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/alison-rossiter|archive-date=2019-04-10|url-status=live}} and the Getty Museum.{{cite web|url=http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/2181/alison-rossiter-american-born-1953/|title=Alison Rossiter (American, born 1953) (Getty Museum)|website=The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles|access-date=2019-04-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410065628/http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/2181/alison-rossiter-american-born-1953/|archive-date=2019-04-10|url-status=live}}
Expired Paper
Rossiter has an extensive collection of expired photographic papers from the early 20th century through the 1980s.{{Cite news|last=Schwendener|first=Martha|date=2015-04-09|title=Alison Rossiter: 'Paper Wait'|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/10/arts/design/alison-rossiter-paper-wait.html|access-date=2021-08-15|issn=0362-4331}} Using limited darkroom techniques, Rossiter creates minimalist photograms referencing landscape and geometry while revealing the subtle chemical and environmental traces the paper has accumulated during its decades in storage. Her work increasingly employs multiple sheets of paper assembled into grids.{{Cite news|last=Vellam|first=Nadia|date=2015-05-28|title=Vintage Photographs, Reinterpreted|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/t-magazine/alison-rossiter-paper-wait-analog-photography.html|access-date=2021-08-15|issn=0362-4331}}
Publications
= Monographs =
- Compendium, {{ISBN|9781942185703}}
- Expired Paper, {{ISBN|978-1-942-18533-8}}
= Publications Including Rossiter =
- Light, Paper, Process
- Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2014. Author: Virginia Heckert. {{ISBN|9781606064375}} Light, Paper, Process features the work of seven artists—Alison Rossiter, Marco Breuer, James Welling, Lisa Oppenheim, Chris McCaw, John Chiara, and Matthew Brandt—who investigate the possibilities of analog photography by finding innovative, surprising, and sometimes controversial ways to push light-sensitive photographic papers and chemical processing beyond their limits.
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