Re: What is Mordoncage?

Peter Marshall (petermarshall@cix.compulink.co.uk)
Thu, 7 Nov 96 21:13 GMT0

In-Reply-To: <199611071503.AA16647@betazoid.unx.sas.com>

>
> 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.

Gretel

You should find 'etch bleaching' in photographic books; I think this was
discussed here not very long ago also, with some formulae (unless i'm getting
confused with another list.)
>
> 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
>

Peter Marshall

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