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With pride I enclose a few pictures from the
opening of first photo exhibition in Slovenia dedicated to alt
processes.
The opening was held on September, 13, in the
gallery Sunny hall (Sončna dvorana) in coastal city of Izola.
There was a dance performance for the opening (see
photos) with plenty of food and wine.
The exhibition shows 41 of my alt works and covers
various processes I tried in last seven years: cyanotype, salt print, VDB,
argyrotype and gum print.
You may see a few pictures here:
The show will be open till September, 28th.
Comments are welcome.
Regards from Slovenia.
Stane Kocar
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 10:10
PM
Subject: Re: my first two gum
prints
Katharine and others on the Alt Photo List
Per our recent discussions regarding "freeform" gum prints, your e mail
comment---- quote ---"But that's the cool thing about gum printing, is
that like painters, we can think about these questions of how colors work
together, and like painters, we could even choose colors that work together in
ways that suit our purpose, rather than represent the actual colors if
they don't" and your other e mail comment ----quote "in gum printing we
have the option to express an image in whatever colors we want to use (more
like a painter than a
photographer" ) sounds to
me that this print may be an example of a "freeform" gum print.
Just a thought and just my 2 cents.
Bruce
Katharine Thayer <kthayer@pacifier.com>
wrote:
Hi
All,
This seems to me a demonstration of how differently different people
will view the same image.
I think Little Sister is a nicely made
tricolor gum print and a cute
image, but the other image, the portrait,
really speaks to me. I
could live with this image, in fact I keep it
open on my desktop so
I can look at it often. I like the colors just as
they are; the
golden brown light in the face echoes the golden brown
light in the
background, and the pink of the vest provides a subtle
color contrast
while still echoing some of the same hue tones; it brings
out the
light of the face while remaining in the background itself. To
me,
it's an analogous color scheme that works very beautifully, and
doesn't need any cool tones to be a well balanced picture. I was a
bit sorry to learn that the sweater is actually more purple, which
would be a different, more complementary and therefore competing
rather than supporting, color interaction. Not bad in and of itself,
but the effect would be different.
But that's the cool thing
about gum printing, is that like painters,
we can think about these
questions of how colors work together, and
like painters, we could even
choose colors that work together in ways
that suit our purpose, rather
than represent the actual colors if
they don't.
Not that I think
Charles should go out of his way to change the
colors in the original
image, if he'd prefer to print it more
realistically. My point here is
more a general point that comes out
of the context of other things I've
been thinking about recently:
isn't it great that in gum printing we
have the option to express an
image in whatever colors we want to use
(more like a painter than a
photographer) without having any obligation
to, or being forced by
technology to, represent the scene in the colors
of the original scene.
I agree; if there's no texture in the
negatives you've got, there's
no point in printing them again to try to
print texture in. I don't
think I quite understood that, at
first.
My 2cents,
Katharine
On Sep 17, 2007, at
9:39 AM, ryberg wrote:
> Many thanks to those who said such nice
things about my prints.
> Even greater thanks to those who offered
advice. It is all
> carefully noted and will be used, if not on these
images, on some
> others.
> For those who asked, I'm using the
three colors which came in an
> inexpensive set from Daniel
Smith--Hansa Yelow Medium, Perylene Red
> and French Ultramarine. The
screaming yellow in Little Sister is
> intentional--her stockings
were screaming yellow. I failed to get
> her dress a much brighter
green to match the real one. Korean
> children and many adults wear
BRIGHT colors. There is no story
> behind the image--just a tired
little girl at a long public
> celebration of Budda's birthday. The
overly warm look in Adjuma
> may well be too warm but, again, it is a
warm image with the dried
> vegitation behind. Her purple sweater is
not quite purple enough.
> I'm still working on that image, so I can
cool it down and see how
> it looks.
> As to the several
suggestions that I print over the image--I
> just can't do it. My
small muscle control and my poor eye-hand
> coordination make hand
registration impossible. I use registration
> pins and plan all my
negatives from the start so I can punch them
> at one time. The
negatives I have show no texture in the hat, so I
> could reprint
forever and not get any. I did try (disaster) a new
> negative to add
some texture to the hat. A closer inspection of
> the Photoshop image
indicates that the texture in the hat, while
> present, is pretty
pale. What I am doing now is adjusting the
> photoshop image to add
the texture to the hat and sleeve,
> reprinting the negs and now the
image. I'll post it when it is
> done. I don't work as fast as many
of you.
> Charles Portland Oregon
>
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