Re: FYI:Mold Pictures (fwd)
Thomas Bregante ( tom@pcyc.com)
Thu, 09 January 1997 12:34 PM
At 03:37 AM 1/10/97 +1100, you wrote:
>>I posted this message to the PhotoART list, becuase I found it amusing in
>>a way. There is no a direct connection with the regular postings, maybe
>>there is an indirect one..:-)..
>>
>>---------- Forwarded message ----------(somewhat shortened)
>>Subject: FYI:Mold Pictures
>>
>>FYI: Today I obtained the new catalog of the firm "Promega" ( biological
>>research products, I work in a biochemical lab). On the front cover is a
>>color photograph, difficult to discribe, lots of purple/red colors, some
>>fingerprints, quite abstract, vaguely reminding me of my biology classes.
>>Same kind of images appeared throughout the catalog. There was a little
>>article about the photgrapher, Andre Farrella, which explained the images.
>>It appeared that this Farrella stored his colour slides and prints in a
>>wet basement, fungus started to grow on them an transformed the negs and
>>photographs and negs (these fungus/molds lived on o.a. on gelatine). Six
>>years of images down the drain, until he got interested and started to
>>print these "mold" negs, and liked them a lot, and so did the company
>>
>
>I presume he had already checked that none of the fungi was a species that
>can ruin lenses, cameras, enlargers, etc? I wouldn't play this game unless
>I was sure that nothing could spread to and hance dammage my equipment, or
>contaminate any prints I wished to make in the future! It would not be fun
>to see a platinum print go mouldy months/years later after being infected
>with fungal spores which had been distributed all over the darkroom...
>
>But then, the British always are a tad pessimistic ;-)
>
>Jonathan Anderson
Should be after Dunkirk!.
Tom
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