Re: Revival

Peter Charles Fredrick (pete@fotem.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 10 Sep 1996 01:29:39 +0000

>(What date did the Bea Nettles book come out - I think this was the first
book that told you how to do it that had been on sale in the UK - if very
limited sale - since the '30's? Or was Peter Fredrick 1980 book before
this?)<

Bea Nettles book was published in USA in 1977 but made it over here a few
years latter,as did Arnalds Gassans,hand book of contempory photography
1977 and Kent E Wades, Alternative Photographic processes,1978 also we must
not forget
T I Williams little but influential book Pigment Printing Processes, and my
real friend David Scopick, whose book, The Gum Bichromate book published
by light impressions 1978, and of course the seminal book by William
Crawford, Keepers of the light 1979.

These flock of books instigated the revival.

We have had to wait over a decade to reap the reward of this creative activity

>However, as I remember it we (you and Randall Webb in particular, while I
just occasionally dabbled) ploughed a fairly lonely furrow until the
mid-80's. Of course Peter Fredrick was also at work in Southend.<

I was in fact teaching gum-printing several years before I moved to
Southend, in the swinging sixties at Salisbury College of Art and Design,
but doing so as a blindfolded man in the dark, shortly after moving to
Southend in the early seventies, I was asked by Professor Margaret
Harker,to help her with occasional workshops, at Westminster University, to
back up her Photo --Succession lectures,also in 1974 saw a series on BBC2
called "Pioneers of Photography" I demonstrated Gum and Oil [ this is
beginning to sound like a CV] :-) anyway it was a long time ago. We
worked in Isolation fumbling around finding out, by a painfully slow
process of trail and error.since this time a number of new initiatives have
come forward Terry King has built on his base at Twickenham to produce a
vital course in Photo -Alt printmaking.

I in association with Dennis klinker , Joyce Peck , Paul De Delve, Keith
Dugdale, have been envolved in the creation of APR, a Two year course in
CREATIVE IMAGE MAKING at Kingsway College Kentish Town, and PHOT
ALTERNATIVE INTERNATIONAL INDEX. These initiatives came directly out of
Photo-Alt 92.

But the Greatest move forward must be this LIST !

We are a family any time day or night we can connect to each other across
the World, and as a family, we sometimes have rows, but what keeps us
together is greater than our disparities.

>Personally I do it because its fun.<
Peter Marshall

so do I

pete

Ps. Back to the blind folded man he has now got the blindfold off but is
still in the dark ;-)