[alt-photo] Re: Alt-photo-process-list Digest, Vol 722, Issue 1

[Tomas Sobota]

Andy,

was it in front of the large Royal Palace in the Plaza de Oriente? She made
essentially portraits?

If so, I know that girl, she is Argentinian but she learned the technique
and bought the camera here in Madrid.
She uses normal enlarging paper in as soft a grade as she can get, usually
grade 1 because grade 0 is hard to get these days. Contrast builds up very
fast in Madrid harsh sun.

She develops the negative in a paper developer and then fixes it as usual.
Don't remember which chemicals she used. Without bothering to wash, she
then rephotographs this negative on an identical sheet of enlarging paper,
develops and fixes again and this time takes some time to wash the positive.

I mentioned to her that probably a contact copy would be of better quality
but she was of the opinion that a contact would require the paper neg to be
dry, so reshooting was faster. I remember that she used a Schneider Xenar
210mm lens in her camera.

I have seen other practitioners doing this (the old man in Segovia
mentioned by Juan Miguel) and they all seem to work very similarly. Have
seen them in South America also.

BTW the girl is not there any more, she has been "dislodged" by another
photographer who then also disappeared. I haven't met her again.

Tom

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:25 PM, andy schmitt <aschmitt at aandy.org> wrote:

> Richard
> When Karen & I were in Madrid, we had out portrait done by a street
> photographer who was certainly not using direct positive paper.
> The image she took was processed in the camera, dried moderately and
> rephotographed by being placed into a holder a set distance from the
> camera.
> It was also processed, washed(sort of) and dried off (sort of). She told me
> to wash it out more in the sink when I got back to the hotel.
> Since I had expressed so much interest in the process, she also gave me the
> paper negative.
> Pretty impressive, fast & it delivered an awfully nice image..
> I've often thought about building one of those cameras out of a spare
> 8x10...
> Regards
> Andy Schmitt
>
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>      I am pretty sure these used direct-positive paper and probably worked
> about like the street photographers cameras.
> The ones I remember from when I was a kid delivered sepia images which may
> be a clue as to the process.  They were found in many places.
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> Richard Knoppow
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