Catherine Jansen

Place: New York City

Born: 1950

Biography:

Catherine Jansen is an American artist born on December 14, 1950, in New York City, United States. She has been inventing, exploring and creating photographic processes that merge state of the art technology with traditional photography since the late 1960s. Jansen is known for her work in soft sculpture, cyanotype, and digital photography. She created the Soft Tea Set in 1969, a scaled to life, photographic, three-dimensional object using a formula of potassium ferrocyanide and citric acid, which she developed specifically for cloth material. She also used the cyanotype process to create a scaled to life room environment using cyanotype on cloth, called The Blue Room. Jansen was also the first artist to extensively explore the potential of the electronic color copier process using electronically generated images that preceded the digital camera and computer technology.