There have been revisions to the programme. It is a full and very
interesting programme covering a wide range of processes both in terms of
their history and of their current applications both in the enthusiast and
the professional worlds.
Alternative Photography International Symposium 1997 6, 7, 8 June
1997.
at the Royal Photographic Society Bath
Programme
Friday 6 June
Morning
0930 Meet for coffee, registration and distribution of delegate packs.
1000 Terry King FRPS will introduce the Symposium. Pamela Roberts will
show examples of historic 'altemative' prints from the RPS collection.
Barry Lane, theSecretary General of the Royal Photographic Society will
open the Symposium.
1030 Books and Materials
This will be an opportunity for authors and publishers to draw attention to
their publications or planned publication of books on alternative
processes..
Martin Reed and Dick Sullivan will explain how Silverprint and Bostick and
Sullivan came to play such an important part in supplying the alternative
processes market.
Large format film and specialist materials are often difficult to obtain.
What are the best sources. Ilford will be ready to tell thesymposium about
the supplies of their films in sizesof 10 x 8 and up.
Are kits or read coated materials the answer for platinum palladium
printing or other processes.
There will be a presentation on a new pneumatic printing frame developed by
Peter Frederick.
There be representatives of Bergger, Ilford, Kentmere (Garry Hume will be
available to non supercoated papers, printing out papers from the chicago
Albumen Company, and special silver gelatine
papers), Palladio, Photospeed, Polaroid , Silverprint and Bostick and
Sullivan and
suppliers from France and Germany to form a panel for questions from the
audience
1145 Digital Negatives
Presentation by Sil Horwitz FPSA on computer printing for alternative
processes; this will be followed by a discussion on the use of ink jet and
other printers to
produce negatives and prints for alternative processes. Iris bureau
representatives will also be at the meeting.
1300 Lunch
1400 A practical approach to the history of photography.
Philip Jackson will give a presentation on the Woodburytype, probably the
most beautiful of the nineteenth century photo-mechanical processes. There
will be Woodburytype specialists from the Netherlands, the UK and
Australia.
There will be a talk on the Hillotype by Mike Crawford leading to a
discussion on fraud and alternative processes which may or may not be light
hearted..
1515 The Professional Approach
Alistair Laidlaw and Christine Marsden will show examples of large platinum
prints incorporating polaroid transfers. Roy Snell will speak on the place
of the professional darkroom in an age of increasing digitisation;
representatives from Metro and Lighthouse will take part in the ensuing
discussion. This
discussion will include toning of specialist silver gelatine papers.
1630 The Calotype, the Albumen Print and the Salt Print
Richard Morris will talk about the Calotype and Martin Becka will present
his saltprints made using the LeGray waxed paper method.
1730 Close for the day.
Saturday 6 June
0930 Meet for coffee
The morning will be devoted to the iron processes.
1000 The Rationale of the Ferric Processes.
Mike Ware will present a paper on his appoach. to the chemistry of
alternative processes including his new cyanotype, argyrotype and gold
printing processes.
1100 The Kallitype
Carlos Gasparinho will talk on his work with the Kallitype
1120 The Ziatype
Dick Sullivan will talk about his new hand coated silver process using
lithium salts.
There will then be a discussion of iron based alternative processes and
presentations of platinum prints, including professional printing,
cyanotypes and chrysotypes.
1300 Lunch
1400 Gum and Variations.
There will be presentations on four colour gum printing by Hans Nohlburg;
the gum oil process by Karl Koenig,. Terry King and Peter Frederick will
give an outline of his approach to multicolour gum printing. .
1515 Carbon Gravure and Variations.
Art Chakalis will give a presentation on his patented direct pigment
process. and there will be speakers on gravure from Sweden, Denmark,
Norway, France, ( Jean Daniel Lemoine on his four colour gravures) and from
the Netherlands (Johan de Zoete).
1625 Photoceramics
Galina Manikova will give a presentation on her methods of applying
photographs to ceramic bases.
1640 (Approximately) Bromoil and Oil Pigment Prints
with Mike Shorter on
the Gelabrom.
1730 Reports on progress for future meetings of APIS in Santa Fe and Lisbon
and on the Exhibition at Bath planned for the autumn and on the alternative
photography event planned for 1998 in Bradford.
1740 Close for the day.
2000 until midnight. Dinner (Informal, dress smart casual) in the Concert
Room of the Roman Bath complex with the bar overlooking the Roman bath.
Sunday 8 June
0930 Lacock & Avebury
Visit to Lacock where Michael Gray, the Curator of the Fox Talbot Museum,
will give a presentation, arising from the exhibition he has prepared on
the work of John Thomson, on the preparation of digital negatives for the
production of salt and albumen prints. The presentation will be in the
great hall of the Abbey .Coffee will be provided in the Stable Tea Rooms.
Lunch will be provided at the Red Lion. Then to Avebury with a visit to
museum for a short talk by the warden of the prehistoric stone circle. The
group will return to Bath at about 5.30.