Re: Anderson on registration
Judy, The subject of "faking it" was interesting in what I saw at MOMA. The Kaisibier (sp) gums were spotted in many places with brush and presumably watercolor (very probably commercial spotting colors, see below). There were often as many as a dozen retouch spots in each print and each one stood out like a sore thumb. Unlikely that she saw these prints as they are now. The pigment she used in her gum must be fugitive but not the pigment in her spotting paint. The other gums by prominent printers of the time seemed flawless in spotting. Either they printed so well that they didn't need to spot (multiple layers would tend to cancel out errors) or they spotted so well that even with holding the bare, unglazed, print at angles to the light I couldn't see any additions. Neither paint or pencil showed with close examination (I was looking like a real dork with two pair of reading glasses stacked on my nose and hunched over the prints). Jack > From: Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com> > Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca > Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:48:13 -0500 (EST) > To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca > Cc: alt-photo-process-error@sask.usask.ca > Subject: Anderson on registration > > There's a chapter in Anderson's book on Pictorial Photography about gum > over platinum (or other combo, tho I think it's that), where he says > register the face and fake the rest of it , that is, fudge it by pencil.
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