Re: Truth Beauty book
Judy
Have a good trip
Eastman House is great
I went to RIT back 1953 and I come from that part of the world Seneca
Falls woman rights
I was up there last July for 55 year school reunion
I go up now and than.
I go up not air use AMTRAK great trip up the Hudson and west central NY
Better than air comfort ,lot to see,keep your shoe on and you do not
have to go as far uptown to get the train
Enjoy
james Romeo
On May 12, 2009, at 12:52 AM, Judy Seigel wrote:
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Don Bryant wrote:
What I cannot understand, though (forgive my opinion here), is that
generation's fascination with the Michallet paper that had strong
vertical
lines. You can tell it a mile away in a book.
Michallet paper:
If I recall Judy Segal mentioned this paper several eons ago on the
list.
Wow, Don... I think we all need to be REALLY careful around you. WHAT
A MEMORY ! (I almost forgot it myself.) Yes, I got the Michallet
from NY Central Artists Materials, tho I don't remember which medium I
used on it (cyano comes to mind, but that means nothing. It could have
been VDB or even gum. This is a stab in the dark, but I get the
thought that if it was gum, it re-registered easily -- maybe all those
lines sucked up the slack.)
What was great about it, was that it printed like a charm & held its
shape. What was bad about it was that the texture was intrusive
visually. I had the thought that a dry mount or book press could
diminish that texture, but that might also diminish the printing
qualities. I didn't notice the texture that much in the book (only in
a couple of prints -- but then I wasn't looking for it). On the 3rd
hand, I do recall seeing small reproductions in old books (I think of
Heinrich Kuehn, "Technik der Lichtbildern") that could have been on
that, or similar textured paper. But if something is the custom of the
time (say, like nose rings) you don't notice it so much.
I AM, HOWEVER, GOING TO ROCHESTER NEXT TUESDAY TO SEE THE WORKS IN THE
FLESH, SO TO SPEAK, so I might have more to report then.
And that's Don Bryant's doing (thank you very much, she said in honest
irony) ... I went to the website he cited, and the fellow or one of
them said the show was at Eastman House until the 31st. If I'd
realized that Jet Blue would quadruple its rate in the half hour it
took me to confirm date & time, I might have hesitated, but by then
I'd spent so much time figuring time, dates, mileage, connections &
sainted husband had volunteered to drive me to the morning plane....
how could I not?
However I took it upon myself to lecture the info man I finally
reached at Eastman House, because their website gave only instructions
for getting there by car, via "thruway." I explained to the fellow
that nowadays it's more virtuous to travel by mass transit than solo
on the thruway (tho we make an exception for the trip to my morning
plane), to little avail. He didn't have a clue which airline might go
from NYC to Rochester, until I'd badgered him enough that he said, oh
maybe something like Jet Blue or whatever...and they did. But that
killed the afternoon before I could call to find out why the evil
Network Solutions hadn't resurrected my domain name as promised so I
could forward attachments to the resident mail program -- among a few
other performance failures (other than my own).
TBC,
Judy
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