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

Loris Medici mail at loris.medici.name
Fri Mar 12 20:42:22 GMT 2010


I think I've made a mistake: with "seasoning" I actually meant "dressing"...
I can't find a direct translation of the word we use for the practice...

2010/3/12 Loris Medici <mail at loris.medici.name>

> Roger, where have you photographed those opium poppies?
>
> BTW, did you know we have a city named after opium here in Turkey?
> Afyonkarahisar... (Afyon: Opium Karahisar: Dark Castle) We have many baked
> goods which are seasoned with poppy seeds. (Yummy!)
>
> Regards,
> Loris.
>
>
> 2010/3/12 <info at permadocument.be>
>
> Dear Dick,
>> Belgium, as a small country, did not have many adepts of alternative
>> processes.
>> I have been in "alternative" since the late 1960's with a study on a
>> process derived from orotone. The perfect stability of the results
>> prompted me recently to reuse the process which I now call "orotype".
>> Exemples on: http://www.permadocument.be/texte/YRK/RFK/RK/RKE3.html
>> In the early 1970's I aexperimented with different image supports and
>> processes derived from etching techniques. These experiments have
>> later been a good support for my teaching programms in photographic
>> conservation-restoration.
>> With best regards
>>
>> Roger Kockaerts
>> 7 rue des Balkans
>> B-1180 Brussesls, Belgium.
>> www.permadocument.be
>>
>>
>> Quoting "Richsul Sullivan" <richsul at earthlink.net>:
>>
>>  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!
>>>
>>> --Dick Sullivan
>>>
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