“Personally, I like my photography straight, unmanipulated, devoid of all tricks; a print not looking like anything but a photograph, living through it's own inherent qualities and revealing its own spirit.” - Alfred Stieglitz
Welcome to Lytescapes Imagery and Design by Jon Lybrook. Here you will find digital representations of a unique style of artwork: Hand-crafted, cameraless photography. You may be asking, what is cameraless photography? The one-of-a-kind pieces you are about to see were created without a camera or enlarger by manipulating light sensitive, black and white negative film directly with photographic chemicals. Also known as luminograms, they are the result of 25 years of work and experimentation in the craft of avant-garde photography, painting, and experimentation. The end results are Lytescapes. Lytescapes are non-objective in content, but are created from principles rooted in pure photographic processes, and traditional, film archiving techniques.
Hear a 2004 interview about chemigrams with Jon Lybrook on KGNU Radio in Boulder and Denver: Stream the MP3 audio or Right-Click Here to Download. Intro music courtesy of California Guitar Trio.
Lytescapes are created by Jon Lybrook of Boulder, CO and available exclusively through Lytescapes on-line.
Begin your tour of the Luminogram Gallery... 
