RE: "Tricolor gum printers" deconstructed
Hey, I've got an idea. How about we just take Katherine at her word that she is looking for people that approach the process as she does, which means LITERALLY "three colored gums". I was excluded because I use CMYK separations. As a person who uses gum in all sorts of configurations: with cyano, with vandyke, three and four gum layers, etc., I would venture to say that there is a heck of a lot more similarity between three and four color gum printing than there is between gum over cyanotype and this should be obvious to anyone that has explored the various options. Still, I didn't make the cut, and I'm not interpreting Katherine's motives as being sinister or "biased". -----Original Message----- From: Sandy King [mailto:sanking@clemson.edu] Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 8:07 AM To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca Subject: Re:"Tricolor gum printers" deconstructed When I saw KT's survey my first reaction was, why in the hell would someone think it important to make a distinction between "true gum" prints and full color gum prints that use a cyanotype layer? Then I thought, wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that Chris Anderson uses a cyanotype layer in her three-color prints, and she also is an unabashed proponent of the use of carefully designed curves? I have no idea what Katherine's true motives are, but hopefully she will at least provide the list with her definitive definition of a "true gum". Sandy King
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