Etched Negative Photograph by Alford: Negative #8, Framed

White line on black, and very little of it.

Negative #8 is a framed etched negative photograph by Alford, dated 1985. In this process an artist scratches into a photographic negative, so that the marks print as white lines on black. Artists use it to make images closer to drawing than to the camera, and works like this are made for walls and collections. A single thin line traces a nude torso from the shoulders to the hips, with hands clasped low in front. A black frame and white mat surround it. Thirty-eight and three-quarter inches high and just under thirty-two wide.

A few lines were enough. The artist appears to have known that.