“Extra Special” Series, 1995

Photography as Greenhaus knew it was disappearing with the advent of digital and computerized images. As a result, he was forced to explore other means of producing his work. As far back as the |950’s, photography was starting to change. The companies that manufactured photographic materials removed the silver from film and paper products. They replaced it with plastic emulsions. Everything Greenhaus had done was based on a photography that had to do with film and silver emulsion photographic paper. All of these materials were steadily becoming unavailable. Greenhaus had to explore other means of expressing his vision.

Today, they have cameras that do not use film. All Greenhaus’ images are still made with black and white film and 50 year old, 35mm Nikons. In the 1970’s and 1980’s, Greenhaus started to make prints in other media – lithography, silk screen, etching and photogravure. By the 1990’s, he had begun to explore the possibilities of the pigment print, and 19th century photographic processes such as platinum, palladium, gum and platinum gum prints. Greenhaus combined his vast experience in black and white gelatin silver printing with these assorted media and in so doing came up with new, exciting and powerful means of producing his images. He created new ways of using these processes in order to put his vision on paper.

Book:

The Twin Towers . An Elegy. 1972 – 2001, Picture This Publications + Kennedy Boesky Photographs 2002