Re: "alternative"

Richard Wheeler (rwheeler@amazon.hunter.cuny.edu)
Thu, 19 Sep 1996 10:32:32 -0400 (EDT)

> No categories are absolute, but I think maybe "hand-coated process" would
> apply (so to speak.) As for toners, I think they might be called
> "manipulated" photography. Digital is digital... And dye transfer? Guess
> it's obsolete now, but it was factory photography, no? But you could
> easily call it dye transfer & I think we always did.
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> Judy

Ack!

Digital is digital... what does that mean? What if you use your
computer to do color separations to do gum, is that kosher or are you not
alternative any more since you are using your computer?

And why does it matter that dye transfer was factory photography?
Photogravure was used to print books, and so was albumen prints, and
woodbury type, and even cyanotype, as you well know, Judy. So why don't
knock them off too. Anything commercial has got to go.

And why shove toning of into a corner? Why is it different if you tone
a salted-paper (oh, there's another commercial publishing process of
old; nope, salted paper isn't an alternative) to alter the tone
and to improve permanence than if you tone a silver print to alter the
tone and improve permanence?

richard u wheeler
rwheeler@everest.hunter.cuny.edu
rwheeler@guggenheim.org
http://everest.hunter.cuny.edu/~rwheeler

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