[alt-photo] Re: on-line exhibition

[Diana Bloomfield]

Thanks, Alberto.  So it sounds like the process does have some  
similarities to gum printing, then(?).  I'll check out the  
alternativephotography.com site for more details, but these are really  
lovely.  Would love to see them for real.  Congratulations!

Diana
On Apr 1, 2010, at 3:54 PM, Alberto Novo wrote:

>> 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
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