Bellocq, Friedlander/Cyanotype paper

Cor Breukel (cor@ruly46.medfac.leidenuniv.nl)
Tue, 17 Sep 1996 13:22:34 +0200 (MET DST)

In my (dutch) news-paper of last saterday there was a book review about a
photographer called Bellocq: "Photographs from Storyville, the Red-Light
district of New Orleans". It seems that Lee Friedlander bought, 20 years
after the death of Bellocq, 89 damaged glassneg. He printed them with an
"alternative process, using indirect sunlight, exposure ranging from 3
hours to 7 days (!)" Just curious but what kind of process is this
(mechanism?)

Since I have your attention (hopefully ;-) ), allow me to ask a newbie
question about cyanotype paper. As suggested I switched from blotting
paper (which absorbs, not suprisingly, a lot of sentisizer) to watercolor
paper, I bought Acher and Fabriano (sp?) Artistico, much less chemicals
are needed, since only the surface on one site gets"wet". Does this means
that the papers are "sized"? And what site of the paper should I use, the
one where the watermark is readable? I did notice a tonas difference
between the three different papers, and got the impression that the
"smoother (Fabriano)" the paper, the sharper the image (makes sense)

Thanks for any info!

Cor Breukel
http://ruly70.medfac.leidenuniv.nl/~cor/cor.html
"The Infrared Gallery"
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