Re: Italy

[jefulton1 <jefulton1@comcast.net>]

Chris . . first my condolences to your husband . . . I was just at the  
bottom of the Grand Canyon in March in the most remote of all the  
areas, w/our two daughters on a 50 mile hike (see:  
<stephaniefulton.com>) and injured my self but other really fit guys  
spotted me and did the rappel we did to the river where they hailed a  
raft . . virtually all the rafts have satellite phones, so check the  
company and they may be able to get
hold of him . . to order a helicopter for me, which I ultimately  
refused because I'd not ordered it nor asked for help.
Jack





On Sep 28, 2009, at 9:41 AM, Christina Z. Anderson wrote:

> 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/
> >    __________________