Marty,
If all else fails, you might try Polymer Plate Photogravure.
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Best Wishes,
Mark Nelson
On Aug 17, 2009, at 8:17:40 PM, "Martin Salowey" <martworld.is@verizon.net> wrote:
Hello list, While the community that makes gravure prints may be small, the loss of a supplier for gravure pigment tissue is horrific, and in my case, financially catastrophic. Over the years I have wanted to explore photogravure but was never able to attend a workshop. So, I decided to teach myself the process. Heck, I did it successfully with many of the other alt processes, so I figured I could do it with photogravure. Over the last year, at great expense, I purchased a etching press, etching hot plate, the needed supplies, sans ferric chloride and gravure tissue. My inquiry of about 2 months ago to Autotype indicated they had no
intention of discontinuing the product, both on their website and ov
er a phone call to confirm the availability and pricing. Last night, Mr. Sullivan's post sent me into a tailspin and I called Autotype this morning to find out the last incoming shipment is sold out! All other sources for the tissue indicated a big run on the material and could not supply any. Yikes, this in no uncertain terms sucks, not only for me, but for the entire photogravure community. I have personally made a huge financial commitment to learning the process and fulfilling a long desire to make gravure prints now to find out the key material is no longer available!!!! Now that I am done crying out loud is there anyone out there that might be willing to sell me 6-12 feet of tissue? I would be be most grateful. Does anyone think there will ever be a commercial source for the material again? Is it at all a possibility to make the tissue from
scratch in an average darkroom, or is a major production facility needed? Sorry if this post sounds a bit unorganized and frenzied, but it certainly reflects my frame of mind and disappointment. Thanks for reading, Marty X-MSK: CML=0.001000
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:22:39 -0600
From: Richsul Sullivan <richsul@earthlink.net>
Subject: RE: Klaus Pollmeier
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Thanks Judy. I've gotten his address, or at least what some think it is,
it's a university email so likely correct. I have an inquiry in to him now.
I don't know why my Google didn't pop him up.
I anyone here has any information on the making of gravure tissue, I and a
lot of other folks would appreciate having it forwarded.
Thanks again Judy,
--Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Judy Seigel [ mailto:jseigel@panix.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 8:01 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
Subject: Klaus Pollmeier
My system seems to have eaten Sullivan's recent query, tho for what it's
worth I note the following 11-year ol
d info (from Post-Factory #2):
There's an article by Pollmeie
r about reprinting Drtikol.... He
(Pollmeier) thus sort of re-invented carbon after it had sunk into total
desuetude...
Klaus Pollmeier's data as of October 1998:
address:
Muehlenfeld 43 S-45470, Muelheim-Ruhr, Germany
[Is that the Muelheim that's just across the field from Basel Switzerland?
I seem to recall something like that... they called it "drei lande ecke."]
Telephone +49-208-431051, Fax: +49-208-433937
e-mail kpollmeier@compuserve.com
(I think, however, compuserve is no more ?)
He worked with Czech artists Jan Splichal and Vaclave Kirasek, who might
still be around & have some suggestions. Also at the time he was teaching
photograpy at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in the Dessau School
of Design. And owned Fine Print Studios, mail order source of alternative
photog. materials.
One of the above might provide a clue, if not the ding an sich.
J.
J.
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