[alt-photo] Re: gold process

[Christina Anderson]

Wow, Alberto,

Those are really beautiful.  And the gold comes out in the image.  He obviously didn't scan them, as it may be that Dalla Tana did and why they appear that ochre color.

There has to be a connection between Dalla Tanna and Stellatelli somewhere, I bet...wouldn't you think?

If I were the widow, I would have no problem with a photographer contacting me at some later date with the thought that my husband's process would live on as the Stellatelli Gold Process. 

The magazine is here:

http://phototechmag.com/

And I did sign a waiver/contract allowing them rights to put the article on their website free of charge so maybe write them and ask when that will happen. Probably not until this issue is replaced by the new one.

Until then the chems and the formulas are on freestyle's website in an article of mine there, and also Alan Bean's article, under the product if you google "chromo".

Here:
http://www.freestylephoto.biz/10945-Arista-Premium-BandW-Chromo-Activator-32-oz.-For-Chromoskedasic

But it is only my brush method of the process, not the tray.  Alan's is the tray method. And the developer that works best, IMHO in my article in PT, is Tektol. On Freestyle's website they have the MSDS for Tektol, so you can be the one to discover (as I ask in the article) why Tektol works so well with the process and Dektol not as well. One has suggested a lack of hydroquinone.

I hope that Photo Technique will allow Freestyle to put the article there, too.

I want to support Photo Technique as much as possible because it was one of the first magazines I got when I first started working in photography, and one of the few that had lots of technique in it.  In fact, it was in Photo Technique back in the 90's when I found Jolly's articles on silver mirror printing and such which started my teaching his processes in 2001. I have a stack of old Photo Techniques on my kitchen table right now that I am going through to pull articles and throw the magazine.  It used to be Camera and Darkroom, then Darkroom Techniques, then Photo Techniques and now redesigned as Photo Technique.

Chris



Christina Z. Anderson
christinaZanderson.com

On Apr 29, 2010, at 1:04 AM, Alberto Novo wrote:

> Christina, 
>> I see that he was teaching his process at a school in the eastern part of the US this year.
> 
> This was one of the reasons why I could not meet him. It seems that he is frequently in the U.S. 
>> I am interested to know if it is chromo chemistry (which you can get a bronze/gold image with) or "pseudo lith" chemistry which produces a gold image but not metallic gold, just a golden yellow flat color like a print that has been not fully bleached by potassium ferricyanide.
> 
> In the italian text in his website it is clear that "gold" means the metal and not "golden" as a color. From the description it looks a chromo with gold instead of silver. His prints have not the characteristic blue to pink hues of colloidal gold.
> BTW: I hate also every reference to alchemy when speaking of photography... 
> Mario Stellatelli, a member of our group who died in 2007, was a master of local toning and he was able to plate out in gold. Unfortunately, this was happening at the end of his life and -unless I ask the permission to his widow to rummaging through his notes- whe have not a description of his process. You can see this toning/plating in particulars of his prints "Two Inkpots", "In the Beginning..." and "The Boite a Joux Joux".
> Just open www.grupponamias.com , then >authors > Stellatelli> Portfolio "Homey Things 2000-2002". 
> How can I manage to read your article in Photo Technique? 
> Alberto
> www.grupponamias.com
> www.alternativephotography.com/articles/art102.html
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