[alt-photo] Re: on-line exhibition

[Alberto Novo]

> Again, I love the work you have up there.  I'm sure resinotype has  been 
> covered on this list, but could you just offer a quick overview  again 
> (for those of us who missed it the first or second time?).  They  look a 
> bit like gum prints, but have a more tactile and an "older"  looking 
> quality, it seems.

Resinotype is a form of powder pigment print. The difference is that the 
powder is made of pigment+rosin, fused and grinded, so becoming idrophobic. 
The print is on a gelatine layer, sensitized with dichromate. The 
not-hardened parts absorb water, so that when the print is immersed in warm 
water the gelatine becomes tacky and the powder adheres to it. There is a 
more detailed description in alternativephotograpy.com.
The way the three pigments (maroon, green and blue) are layered one on top 
of the other has been found by myself and I have not found nothing similar 
in the Italian magazines of 1920-1935. Usually these prints were monochrome 
or the pigments were "painted" following the relief.
You are true about the "tactlile" look. They are exactly so. 

They will be exhibited in Berlin in October 2010 (Christina, if you will 
come in Italy, I could not show them you). 

Alberto