What is a Photo Transfer? The History Center Will Tell Us

Orlando Landmarks: Photo Transfers by Barbara Ery runs June 5-August 8, 2010 Tour Orlando through the lens of Central Florida fine art photographer Barbara Ery. This collection of 30 photo transfers highlights landmark buildings and signs such as the Mt. Vernon Motel, The Plaza Theatre, the Johnson’s Diner sign, the McNamara Pontiac sign, and more.

Ery, photographer and emerging artist, enjoys shooting and working directly with film. Ery crafts original photo transfersusing the Polaroid Transfer Process, developing images on watercolor paper using varying exposure times, temperatures, colors, and film. For this exhibit, she produced the one-of-a-kind photo transfers of familiar Orlando landmarks using a camera, enlarger, slide printer, and Polaroid film to create a nostalgic effect reminiscent of browsing through an heirloom photo album. Ery believes each photo transfer has a dreamy, impressionist quality that showcases the special method of the Polaroid Transfer Process.