[alt-photo] Re: "Alternative Printing": Terms to define

[Romeo]

I have friends who do wet plate now
That is alternative I have watched them work can you.say it is a  
printing
pross it is all a lot of work

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On Feb 15, 2010, at 4:03 PM, Loris Medici <mail at loris.medici.name>  
wrote:

> Well, to me pinhole is not an alternative process. Pinhole is pinhole;
> already something in itself. X-ray, UV, IR, toy cameras, lensbaby,
> self-made optics, photograms/shadowgrams and pinhole (and ...???) are
> indeed alternative imaging methods, OTOH they're not printing methods.
> "Alternative Process" to me is something about the "medium / object".
> Those listed above belong to the category of "Alternative
> Photography"... (Exactly as our Malin has already thought.)
>
> Regards,
> Loris.
>
>
> 2010/2/15 etienne garbaux <photographeur at nerdshack.com>:
>> ...
>> OTOH, unlike some, I see no reason why the imaging process itself  
>> is not a
>> legitimate photographic "process" -- in my view, "process" does not
>> necessarily imply "chemical process" or "printmaking process."  So,  
>> I'm
>> inclined to consider pinhole, as well as ultraviolet and infrared  
>> imaging,
>> to be "alternative" processes.  This can get arbitrary very  
>> quickly, though
>> -- I would not consider using lensbabies or cameras with funky  
>> plastic
>> lenses to be alternative, and IR is quickly becoming relatively  
>> mainstream.
>> ...
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