SFO Museum is pleased to present Sunburn by photographer Chris McCaw. Sunburn comprises twelve one-of-a-kind gelatin-silver, black-and-white photographs in which the sun has burnt its path onto light-sensitive negatives during sunrise on the west side of the San Francisco Bay looking east, near San Francisco International Airport.
McCaw accidentally discovered this process when failing to close his camera’s shutter by sunrise after an all-night exposure of the stars during a camping trip in 2003. To keep the sun at the center of the frame, McCaw moved the camera for every single paper negative. McCaw calculated the number of exposures, selected the best optic and camera format (size of the paper negative), then finally, decided the desired position of the sun’s movement in each frame. McCaw states that his work "combines art and science—it's grounded in the physical world and immediately connected to place."
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McCaw accidentally discovered this process when failing to close his camera’s shutter by sunrise after an all-night exposure of the stars during a camping trip in 2003. To keep the sun at the center of the frame, McCaw moved the camera for every single paper negative. McCaw calculated the number of exposures, selected the best optic and camera format (size of the paper negative), then finally, decided the desired position of the sun’s movement in each frame. McCaw states that his work "combines art and science—it's grounded in the physical world and immediately connected to place."
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