Re: pinhole negatives without electricity?

[Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com>]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, sam wang wrote:

> Judy,
>
> Could she bring lith film and use that for negatives? Cover the windows with 
> Rubbylith and you have a darkroom.
She's done that, but this time, no windows -- it's going to be outdoors.

> Or use photo paper for the pinhole cameras and not worry about reversing the 
> tonalities - there's a Chinese pinhole artist who sells large paper pinhole 
> negatives to museums for as much as $35,000. No reason they have to be 
> printed as positives.
You mean use the paper from the pinhole as the final print?

But again, you can't insert photo paper in daylight, can you? I guess 
you could use one of those black bags...tho it's tough with a bunch of 
squirming kids.  But maybe set up a darktent... I bet someone has made 
one. Maybe a dark cloth over somekind of camping tent for one.  (How big 
is a "pup tent" or don't they do them anymore?)

> For cyanotype, I would just use found objects: leaves, hands, snakes, etc. 
> and not worry about negatives.
She's done that a lot and gets some great effects... but this time has 
something else (possibly impossible) in mind...

J.