Re: Italy

[Paul Viapiano <viapiano@pacbell.net>]

Christina...

Please take care of yourself this week amidst all of life's trials...my 
condolances to you both on your loss.

Paul


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@montana.net>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: Italy


> Dan and Jean and Alberto,
> Gees, when it rains in my life it pours.  Accreditation docs due for our 
> School, trying to figure out the Italy thing, and then my husband's mom 
> died this weekend so off to MN for the funeral.  So I welcome ALL of this 
> stuff below and am putting it together in a doc for my Director, but if I 
> don't email in the next week or so I thank you...I am listening to all 
> suggestions. And Jean, one of these days I want to do it in France.
>
> I know this is a TMI but my husband is currently at the bottom of the 
> Grand Canyon with a group (you put in for a permit to float the river and 
> it takes 15 years to get one!) and unavailable by phone, and thus I have 
> had to book him a flight out of Las Vegas incommunicato so he can make the 
> funeral.  And my first words to him are that his mom died.  How weird is 
> this??? Hopefully he will get out of the Canyon and on a plane in his 
> unwashed bathingsuit, etc.  while I bring a dress suit for him to wear. 
> It just CAN'T get any weirder this week.
> Chris
>
> PS Paul Vapiano, unrelated email, forgive me but I'll be busy for a while 
> so one email will suffice, but Daniel Smith gum has been my tried and true 
> forever, but I find all gums work great, mixed from powder, bought from B 
> and S, Daniel Smith, Photographer's Formulary, Artcraft Chems.  I like the 
> DS so much I bought a gallon when it went on sale.
> __________________
>
> Christina Z. Anderson
> http://christinaZanderson.com/
> __________________
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dan Corsillo" <dan_corsillo@rogers.com>
> To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 8:32 AM
> Subject: Re: Italy
>
>
> Hello Christina.
>
> Can I suggest this group to contact in Italy: Gruppo Rodolpho Namias.
> Their website is: http://www.grupponamias.com/. They are a group
> dedicate exclusively to alternative photo processes with members
> throughout Italy and in other parts of the world. Although I haven't
> contacted them personally, I'm confident they will be happy to be of
> assistance.
>
> Since I am new to this list I will describe my background very briefly.
> I got started in photography in 1967 when I edited the high school
> paper. We were at the deadline for the second issue and our photographer
> was sick so I developed the negs and did the printing while getting
> instructions over the phone. I went on to a job as a lab tech and was
> assigned the task of producing photos for illustrations for publication
> in scientific journals. My next job was as a medical photographer and
> from there I went on to run the visual communications lab at a school of
> architecture where we did photography (large and small format),
> printmaking (silkscreen, intaglio etc.), film (documentary& animated)
> and whatever the academic staff decided would be a good idea at the
> time. I got to dabble in some alt processes during that time, notably
> carbon an palladium which I thoroughly enjoyed.
>
> I've been away from any photographic work for many years now, but I've
> decided to get back into it through alternative processes.
>
> Incidentally, I was born in Italy (I now live in Toronto, Canada) but
> don't get to visit nearly as often as I like so I'm more than a little
> envious of your situation, leading a class in whatever discipline in
> Italy and getting payed for it - have a great time. Oh, I'd recommend
> the fall. The best of in season for food and wine making season just
> starting - it doesn't get better than that.
>
> Regards,
> Dan Corsillo
>
> Jean Daubas wrote:
> > Hi Christina !
> > Happy to know that you're planning to come to Europe (unfortunately not 
> > in France — I would have been so happy to meet you!) and if I may help 
> > you to organize your trip, i'll be really glad.
> > So, maybe, I've a contact which could interest you :
> > ACSAF – Associazione Contemporanea Stampa d’Arte Fotografica — is based 
> > in Florence and this group is really interested in historical processes, 
> > pinhole photography, etc.
> > I have not met them directly but last July, I had some pictures shown 
> > there as part of an international pinhole photography exhibition called 
> > "Senza lenti" curated by Italian pinholist and friend Paolo Aldi.
> > their web-site is there :
> > http://www.acsaf.it/
> > and they speak a little about alt processes and other historical 
> > approaches of contemporary photography.
> > I believe the association is managed by Cesare Bossi.
> > I'm sure it would be interesting for you to contact this group and to 
> > discuss with them the way you could meet them or work with them when you 
> > 're there (as they are in Florence, it could be easy to organize 
> > something with them). And even if they are not directly responding to you 
> > search, I'm sure they will be very happy and efficient to help you meet 
> > some Italian artists and/or have access to darkroom facilities, etc...
> > On my side, I'm going to contact Paolo Aldi in Revereto (North Italy) and 
> > ask him for useful contacts for you (I know he is very involved with 
> > contemporary Italian photographers, artists, poets, etc.). I'll let you 
> > know if he may help you in any manner.
> > Hoping you can get something out of these info,
> > alternative cheers from France,
> > Jean
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Jean Daubas, auteur-photographe
> > 16 rue de Bourg-Sec
> > 25440 LIESLE FRANCE
> > +33 (0)6 81 53 12 89
> >
> >     *From:* Christina Z. Anderson <mailto:zphoto@montana.net>
> >     *Sent:* Saturday, September 26, 2009 4:26 PM
> >     *To:* Alt List <mailto:alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
> >     *Subject:* Italy
> >
> >
> >     Dear All again,
> >     If I were to take a group of students to Italy next fall, Villa
> >     Pieve in
> >     Corciano, halfway between Rome and Florence, is there an alt
> >     community/persons anywhere nearby? (I am having, amidst all these
> >     other
> >     changes at the university, to make a decision on whether to take
> >     the plunge
> >     of a semester in Italy with my students, or roll over the whole
> >     overseas
> >     program (ours is in the fall) to the art dept. (theirs is in the
> >     spring) and
> >     have them take my students in the spring. Or connect with one in
> >     Siena that
> >     is just getting started.)
> >
> >     If I went, I would like it to be alt/experimental based and
> >     connect with
> >     those in the area who are interested in such.
> >
> >     Alberto Novo, you are in Venice...I think that is fairly far away
> >     though we
> >     do go there on the month of travel pre-villa.
> >
> >     Is alt well and alive in Italy and anywhere near Corciano??
> >
> >     I live in Montana where distance is no object--the state is 800
> >     miles across
> >     and driving 300 miles is no biggie, so I think I have a very
> >     skewed sense of
> >     distance.
> >     Chris
> >     __________________
> >
> >     Christina Z. Anderson
> >     http://christinaZanderson.com/
> >     __________________