[alt-photo] Re: Paractitioners from WWII thru the 1970's

[Christina Anderson]

Depends on what you are terming "alt" but here are a few (please forgive misspellings--don't have time to check out names right now);  also depends if you want famous or not so famous:
Ansel Adams (JOKE)
Todd Walker
Kay Kenny
Judy Siegel
Betty Hahn
Bea Nettles
Henry Holmes Smith
Sam Wang
Edmund Teske
William Mortensen
Paul Anderson
Thomas Barrow
Ellen Land Weber
Scott Hyde
Eileen Cowin
Martha Casanave perhaps (she'd be a good one to ask)
Robert Fichter
Lois Conner
James Hajicek
Robert Heinecken
Paul Kilmer
John Wood
Sheila Metzner
Deborah Turbeville (these latter two may be past your bracket of 1945-1980)
etc etc etc etc
Try to buy on Abebooks The Alternative Image catalog from 1982. Some good history there.
U of Florida was rampant alt back "in the day".
Chris


Christina Z. Anderson
christinaZanderson.com

On Mar 11, 2010, at 1:27 PM, Keith Gerling wrote:

> Todd Walker made gum bichromate prints in the 60s (I think)
> 
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Jeremy Moore <jeremydmoore at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> Joe,
>> 
>>> From reading what? I, like Paul, have heard both stories and would like to
>> see citations as opposed to more second-hand information.
>> 
>> -Jeremy-
>> 
>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:09 PM, <JoeSarff at aol.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>>> From reading I have one, Penn would come into the studio, and look at
>> the
>>> ground glass, make adjustments and leave.  The 'technicians' actually
>> lit,
>>> composed and tripped the shutter.  From that I would say David Vestal  is
>>> correct.
>>> 
>>> George Tice also printed platinum in the 70's
>>> 
>>> Joe Sarff
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> In a message dated 3/11/2010 9:41:29 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,
>>> viapiano at pacbell.net writes:
>>> 
>>> AFAIK,  Irving Penn did the alt work in his studios, but of course, may
>>> have
>>> been  helped by assistants.
>>> 
>>> Where do you have info that can be verified that  he did not print his
>> alt
>>> or
>>> other work?
>>> 
>>> You know, a while ago there  was an article in one of the photo mags in
>>> which
>>> David Vestal reamed  Irving Penn re: his work and implied that they guy
>>> knew
>>> nothing about  photography. It was deplorable, and just proved to me that
>>> Vestal had an  axe to grind, but both men's work speaks for  itself.
>>> 
>>> Paul
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Richsul  Sullivan" <richsul at earthlink.net>
>>> To: "'The alternative photographic  processes mailing list'"
>>> <alt-photo-process-list at lists.altphotolist.org>
>>> Sent: Thursday,  March 11, 2010 8:32 AM
>>> Subject: [alt-photo] Paractitioners from WWII thru  the 1970's
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> I can use some help. I am preparing a lecture on the  history of alt
>>> process
>>>> since WWII.
>>>> 
>>>> I would like to  know who was doing handmade and historical process
>>>> photography after  WWII up to 1980. I am particularly interested in
>> folks
>>>> working in the  1970's in what I call the early renaissance period of
>> alt
>>>> photography.  Links to their work is helpful as well as any information
>>> as
>>>> to
>>>> who was actually doing the printing, say in the case of Irving  Penn,
>> who
>>> I
>>>> believed did not print most of his own work. Hopefully the  folks would
>>>> have
>>>> had some exhibitions of their  works.
>>>> 
>>>> As an example, Steve Szabo made a mark in the 70's  doing platinum
>> prints
>>>> and
>>>> Laura Gilpin continued making  platinum prints post WWII until her
>> death.
>>>> Karl Struss had work  printed by Herb Quick and I believe they were
>> made
>>> in
>>>> the  1970's.
>>>> 
>>>> I am not interested in silver gelatin even though some  now consider it
>>> to
>>>> be
>>>> alternative.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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