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Hi Keith,
first I must thank you for all your support.
It is bigger than you might think.
I finaly hang my alt pictures on the wall, that
was my wish from your visit.
I am working to put the whole exhibition on-line,
but I must first wait to the end of exhibition (September, 28th). In a hurry
about framing I didn't have time to scan all of my photos.
Hope to see you again here
Stane
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Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 4:56
PM
Subject: Re: First exhibition in Slovenia
dedicated to various alt processes
Hi Stane!
Congratulations on the
show! Looks great and I wish I could see them in person. Is there
any chance of you displaying them on-line? I really love your
work.
Keith
On 9/18/07, Stane
Kocar <stane.kocar@siol.net> wrote:
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
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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.
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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