Re: Weston Diploma Parchment

[Jon Reid <jon@sharperstill.com>]

Thanks for your support of the image Christina! I have a fan.  
Hilarious? You're a Capricorn right? Contemporarily vacant/banale is  
a nice description. It's from a series called Apocalypse Now that I'm  
hoping to exhibit next year at Gordon Undy's Point Light gallery in  
Sydney Australia.

Jon


On 23/10/2008, at 12:46 AM, Christina Z. Anderson wrote:

> Jon,
> I'm no expert on pt/pd but have worked a fair amount with the old  
> paper and my students loved it except for its flimsiness.  What I  
> found was it doesn't clear very well so the first bath has to be  
> acidic.  And I am wondering if your "palm print" is not that at all  
> but uneven coating, as the paper is quite absorbent.  John  
> Zowkowski is sending me a sample of the new stuff shortly and I  
> have lots of the old to compare with (I bought 250 sheets last  
> year) so I'll see if there is  a change.
>
> But more importantly, what I wanted to say is I just LOVE that  
> image!  It is hilarious.  Very contemporarily vacant/banale. I have  
> a former student whose work is right up your alley.  He's been  
> photographing building sites of a "suburban dream" nature.
> Chris
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> Christina Z. Anderson
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Reid" <jon@sharperstill.com>
> To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 5:46 AM
> Subject: Weston Diploma Parchment
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Just following on from this mornings post.
> > Here are a few pics of my clearing baths showing how yellow the  
> > first bath became. I'm sure the clearing bath was reducing  
> > somewhat the 'warmth' of the paper. Only two 5x7 prints had been  
> > in this bath when  the pics were taken. It is Kodak Hypo-Clear.   
> > Others have complained  about its wet strength, which I found to  
> > be ok. What really surprised  me was how easily/readily it  
> > absorbed grease from my fingers hands.  The act of tearing up a  
> > 11x14 sheet into smaller pieces has left that  large palm-print on  
> > the paper which you can see as the really yellow  bit. This then  
> > clears and takes the image with it! Obviously if I was  printing  
> > anything other than tests I'd use full sheets and not handle  any  
> > part related to the image but I've never had that issue with   
> > Arches Platine.
> >
> >
> > http://www.sharperstill.com/jonreid/pics/IMG_4859.jpg
> > http://www.sharperstill.com/jonreid/pics/IMG_4861.jpg
> > http://www.sharperstill.com/jonreid/pics/IMG_4863.jpg
> >
> > Jon