Re: autochrome

[Gandolfo Jean-Paul <jpgalt1869@yahoo.fr>]

Hello Christina

Louis Lumiere is a public school based 10 miles east Paris, not so far from Disney resort (out of topic regarding alt processes !),  15 minutes travel from the city with a direct subway.

We run a three years program dedicated to photography in the fields of art, science and technology. We have also two departments covering movie making and sound engineering.
My job is focused in teaching BW silver based processs (becoming ALT!), photographic conservation and alternative processes. We are probably the only public school concerned with alt processes teaching in France but however, I think you have a much more deeper approach in US. I read every year accounts of SPE meeting posted on the list and I am really impressed by the topics.
Alt processes in France are mainly bounded with history, culture or  school projects.. In my feeling, something like humanities or classics a student has to learn in a school.

Foreign students can spend one year in the school (two semester, second year) after agreement. Alt process and BW (around 80 hours) but also applied photography, school projects, conservation, digital treatments, optic, history of photography,  sensitometry, law aspects .... (around 1000 hours /year).

If you are planing an european trip , give me a call and I will be happy to meet you and organize a visit of the school.

Best regards

Jean-Paul Gandolfo
Louis Lumiere School (www.ens-louis-lumiere.fr)





--- En date de : Mer 23.7.08, Christina Z. Anderson <zphoto@montana.net> a écrit :

De: Christina Z. Anderson <zphoto@montana.net>
Objet: Re: autochrome
À: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
Date: Mercredi 23 Juillet 2008, 16h31



Jean-Paul,

How far is your school from Paris?

Does your school ever do summer alt programs for groups of foreign students?

Chris

----- Original Message -----

From: Gandolfo Jean-Paul

To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca

Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 8:48 AM

Subject: autochrome

Mustafa

With my friend Bertrand Lavedrine, we are writing a book on industrial history of autochrome plate . We hope to publish it with the full text of two factory note books written by Louis Lumiere a the time of the making of the process.

For us, it's a long story starting around 1990. We found the last press used by Lumiere brothers to crush potatoe starch onf the plates and we met several people involved in this story or history, depending of the approach. Among them, the son of the man who produced the poatoe starch from scratch, not so far from Lyon, the city where the Lumiere factory was located. The press was restored in the 90 and in running it again we got the tool to understand the missing pieces allowing us to understand the process in terms of making.

We hope the book will be out of the press fall of this year. You have just to wait some months !

The quote of Gordon is right, you can find a paper about the project in History of Photography (summer 1994 issue).

Best from Paris

Jean-Paul Gandolfo
Louis Lumiere School of Photography
Marne-la-Vallee
France

(I was unable to reply using my old adress so I open a new one associated with Photo Alt)

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