[alt-photo] Re: Paractitioners from WWII thru the 1970's
Richsul Sullivan
richsul at earthlink.net
Thu Mar 11 22:37:07 GMT 2010
Christina,
Thanks, I have some on my list but this is great! Some of these I was not
aware worked that early. I got to dig out our customer database form the
early 80's.
I studied with Teske, Heineken, Walker and MacDonald (not on list.)
MacDonald taught at the Mortensen school in Laguna Beach. This is really
great as there are some I never heard of.
I saw the John Wood retrospective in Rochester in October of 2008. He came
out of Alfred U.
--Dick
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Christina Anderson
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Subject: [alt-photo] Re: Paractitioners from WWII thru the 1970's
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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