Re: Italy

[Paul Viapiano <viapiano@pacbell.net>]

It should read, "condolences"

Typing too fast these days...



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Viapiano" <viapiano@pacbell.net>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 9:53 AM
Subject: Re: Italy


> 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/
> > >     __________________