Re: Names, names...

Jack Fulton ()
Wed, 22 January 1997 2:34 AM

Okay mon 2 centimes.
We've always taught IT as non-silver until we found some processes
contained silver but WE still called it 'non-Ag'.
I didn't teach it.
Now, I do teach a course entitled Materials & Methods or is it Methods
and Materials. It does cover salt, VDB, cyan, Polaroid, emulsion peel,
montage, liquid emulsion though I often don't cover the Cyan and VDB due
it being taught in the non-silver class and we don't have enough room
for all those maddened chemists.
This is where I came up w/"Historical" processes. My feeling is that
modernity lasted until Ansel Adams & then Minor White opened our
department in 1946. Mr. Herschel came up w/cyanotype in a flash whilst
also understanding Fox Talbot's process. A few used this blue image but
it soon fell from popularity until resurrected in the late 1800's.
"History" repeats itself.
Sooo, I'd like the medium to be put into categories like "Historical'
and 'Contemporary Useage and Strategy.'
Sort of divides the centuries, puts an emphasis on how important history
is jb@dgi.net (particularly to youth as students) and gives full acceptance of
"anything goes" of today.
Well, more than 2 cents … maybe a nickel.
Jack

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