What is Mordoncage?
Gretel Easter (sasgve@unx.sas.com)
Thu, 7 Nov 1996 10:03:16 -0500 (EST)
Sunday afternoon I went to the opening of the North Carolina
Photographers Annual Exhibition. Mostly gelatin silver prints,
but there was a good representation of alternative processes
as well. Which is why I'm posting: One of the pictures, which
looked very much like an etching, was listed as "modified
mordoncage." Does anyone know what this is? I've looked for
the term in a couple of books but can't find it.
My guess is that it is related to (or involves) etching, and
that perhaps the root of the word is the French verb mordre,
which means to gnaw or bite into (and so by extension to etch?).
I could be way off, though.
I'm assuming it is a photographic process, since it was included
in the juried show.
Thank you very much for any insights.
Gretel Zweigart Easter
Raleigh, NC