[alt-photo] Re: casein works in AZ

[Christina Anderson]

Hi Loris,

Yes I do.

I had studied the Enos archives in Kentucky in January 2011, prompted by Sam Wang who put the bug in my ear that they were there, so I blame it all on Sam (who, BTW, has beautiful, delicate casein prints and worked with Enos himself in the early 80s). I thought I'd just go check the archives out and be done with it. Nope. Had to try it. Then kept trying it. Then I finished my research into casein at the Eastman House this summer, where I found it was included in the autotype (carbon) tissue at one point, and I wonder how much casein played a role in all of the commercial dichromated colloid papers at that time...anytime there is matte paper, it can be casein or starch perhaps.

Half the new book is gum (mostly gum) and casein, about 60,000 words on dichromate colloids alone. I wasn't intending on including casein originally, and then it was just going to be a small blurb added into the gum section, and then it became its own chapter sometime this summer, and then it became two chapters this fall, one devoted to the history of the process. Again, I blame this all on Sam who started me on this wild goose chase :).
Chris


Christina Z. Anderson
christinaZanderson.com

On Oct 27, 2012, at 8:20 AM, Loris Medici wrote:

> Christina may I infer you'll have a detailed chapter on casein on your new book?
> 
> Regards,
> Loris.
>