> but I'm also unsure about the
>reasons why one would employ a historical and amazingly versatile technique
>such as gum to create something more than a simple color photograph
> I always had a tingling feeling that various masking techniques, and play
during
>developing, could afford the process something *different*, and something
>wonderful.
There are other processes that will give archival versioms of C Types. And that
is what they are for. Gum gives the freedom to go beyond that.
>This all falls into the category of whether the original question implies
>more than one negative re: color separation, or more than one negative re:
>collage.
Colour seps need four negs, R G B & R+G+B for black.
Paper negs need separate tranches of of tone if exposures are not very very long
as the shadow detail is going to require a very dense neg if you are going to
try to do it in one.
>collage is cool
For a collage use as many as you need in whatever combination you need.
>perhaps the wrong answer for a tech list?
Many of us are just as interested in the aesthetic and cultural implications of
what we do even if, as in my case, we are not interested in fatuous critical
theory ( replies to PHOTOART please). Comments from plenty of others on the
list make it clear that this is not a 'tech list'.
Terry