RE: C. Bennett Moore and gum

[EJN Photo <ejnphoto@sbcglobal.net>]

Chris, I have been consumed by family time which is a good thing. :  ) 
And much of life is now a digital pursuit, although the platinum and
Chrysotypes are still on going.  
 

EJ & Family
10219 Lynford Dr
Dallas, TX 75238
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christina Z. Anderson [mailto:zphoto@montana.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 10:05 PM
> To: Alt, List
> Subject: C. Bennett Moore and gum
> 
> Hi All,
> I am at the George Eastman House this week and next,
> researching gum
> printing. Needless to say I am in hog heaven.  I must be really
> boring to be
> excited about this.
> 
> They have a darling notebook type book in there by Leyland
> Whipple that
> actually has 4 or so gum prints in the back of it, real gum
> prints! Pete
> Turner's work is hanging in a show now, there, at the GEH...and
> what a
> place...
> 
> Whipple had good points, and believed that you learn a lot
> about gum by
> standardizing, and he learned this from a guy named C. Bennett
> Moore.
> Anyone on the list ever heard of him?  He lived in Alexandria
> VA, although
> Whipple himself was from Portland, Maine.  Book has a 1964 date
> on it so it
> would have been before that time that Whipple met Bennett.
> 
> Lots more to share but I'll do it in mini pooplets (does that
> translate into
> other languages?)--this list has been far too quiet over the
> holidays. What
> up wit dat? I had an excuse--no internet to speak of for two
> and a half
> weeks unless I drove to a local hotel's parking lot and sat in
> my car with
> my laptop.
> Chris
>