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Re: alt-photo anniversary in 2009



My ten year anniversary on the list will be next October.  I can't believe I've known some of you that long.  I went to my first APIS conference that year and met a man named John Melanson, who was on the list and told me about it.  In fact, he was surprised I didn't know about it, I suppose presuming anyone who would go to APIS would know about "the list". He kept bugging me to join it and I finally did and the rest is history as they say. I think I had at least several questions a week on the list. Well, still do!
 
I was also on the infrared list for a while and the black and white one, too, but one alt list is enough for me to handle.
 
I also remember that APIS was at this college with dorms, and John had brought his computer with him and was able to check email in his room.  I was really surprised that someone could bring a computer and check email!  It just didn't compute, literally, in my mind. I mean, I have emailed since 95 but didn't travel with my desktop.  Oh how times have changed there, since I never travel without a laptop, and email is crucial to me today.
Chris
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----- Original Message -----
From: BOB KISS
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 5:41 AM
Subject: RE: alt-photo anniversary in 2009

DEAR GORD ET AL.,

            I have been on this list since 1998 and it was, along with Judy’s WJPFP, instrumental in helping me gain knowledge in many alt media.  Living in Barbados I am often the only practitioner of some media (PT/PD) with just one or two others who have some knowledge of Cyanotypes.  Without this list and the amazing generosity and sharing of so many of its members I would have had to travel to a 1st world country to take workshops…a rather expensive and time consuming proposition. 

            Thanks again to Gord and all those who have helped me directly by replying to my (sometimes foolish) questions and indirectly by posting their own questions and replies. 

                        CHEERS FROM BARBADOS!

                                    BOB

 


From: ender100 [mailto:ender100@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:49 AM
To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
Subject: RE: alt-photo anniversary in 2009

 

Judy,

 

If it will make you feel any better over your "illicit digital sex", put your 14.4 oz camera on a 20 lb tripod and set it up on the streets of New York.  I am sure you will draw a crowd! hehehehe

 

thanks for your remembrances!

 

Best Wishes,

 

Mark Nelson

 

On Nov 19, 2008, at 10:35:20 PM, "Judy Seigel" <jseigel@panix.com> wrote:

From:

"Judy Seigel" <jseigel@panix.com>

Subject:

RE: alt-photo anniversary in 2009

Date:

November 19, 2008 10:35:20 PM CST

To:

alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca


RE: "Anniversary":

That's not why I'm writing, but I must mention that Greg Schmitz, whom I'd 
picked up in the hall at Pratt, or maybe it was the other way around, told 
me about the list, sent me to Panix, and generally led the way. I was so 
thrilled by the incredible list info and the personalit(ies) -- then out 
of Australia courtesy of Steve Avery -- that I downloaded the entire 
archive (from 1994 to 1997 [Mike Ware, Steve Avery, Carson Graves, Allan 
Janus, Luis Nadeau, Peter Marshall, Bob Schramm, Bernie Boudreau, Henk 
Thijs, and "photo Dave" (Dave Soemarko), among others]) and printed it out 
-- and still have the stack on the shelf at my back as I write.

No, I didn't remember all those names, just picked them up by checking a 
page or two... And now I measure the stack (regular typing-laser paper, 
printed one side): As near as I can measure, just shy of 4 inches (10 
centimeters).

Among my reactions to the list, most dramatic was that I'd been studying 
furiously on my own, testing, reading, experimenting, reading, 
researching, and testing, for several years, and -- given the givens and 
the time, had learned (I thought) quite a lot-- but I had the feeling 
that, between the archive and the ongoing discourse, one year on the list 
doubled that info.

Of course the cast of characters has changed, though some folks seem to 
weave in and out... the tenor of discourse is a lot like then -- mostly 
good natured, warm, and collegial, with the occasional, um, dust-up. But 
there's been a shift in content... now a lot of digital and inkjet. IMO 
inevitably. I myself am NOT about to give up my digital camera (weighs 
just 14.4 ounces so I can carry it routinely in my purse, for whatever 
grabshots come my way -- that being my "esthetic"-- at least at the 
moment), plus whenever I screw up the exposure, which is, um, always a 
possibility, OK, just pop it into Photoshop and hocus-pocus it. But... 
half of that stuff, ie., the digital, is over my head... It multiplies 
faster than I do. So I suffer ongoing, not exactly "genius envy," say, 
digital-savvy envy.

And there seems a strong ambivalence about it generally -- like illicit 
sex: We know that's not why the almighty made the list, but... it's on 
folks' minds. Which is to say, do we have to outlaw list digital? I don't 
(think I ever) want a digital print as my final product, well, not always, 
unless, well, maybe a hybrid -- tho that's not this e-mail -- but knowing 
the ways and means, possibilities and devices, for negatives, would surely 
make everything else easier/better. I mean getting a decent negative from 
gum in lith film was like patting your stomach and rubbing your head while 
standing on a balloon while walking and chewing gum.

OK, enough... I had a comment on something else, which, on 2nd thought 
calls for a separate message.

J.




 

 

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