Fressons prints
gérard (ggn@avignon.pacwan.net)
Sun, 06 Jul 1997 18:46:22 +0200
None of the Fressons prints y saw here and there inthe past, lets me an
unforgetablle souvenir.
I was much more impressed, as well technically than artistically, by
"platine" prints, Dye transfers, and more recently by Ultrastable prints
that Marc Bruhat showed me.
Today, 6 July, I was in Marseille, (south of France), Where takes place
this year the JIP, "Journées de l'image professionnelle" (instead of Arles).
Nothing interesting here, except, among the exhibitions, 15 Fressons prints
all of 50x60 cm size.
Mains subjects of these prints are "l'opéra de Paris" and some portraits of
french TV known people.
The aspect of surface of Fressons prints is so particular,that I knew,
before reading the announcement, what it was.
Except the surface and the substance (matiére) of the images, the chromatic
result ("rendu") of all of them is really terrible ("affreux").
Skin of the portraits is magenta (like cooked ham), white of the subjects
is yellow.........
At 2$ the 8x10 inches print from an automatic printer, no one of my
customers would pay such prints.
How much coast a 20x24 inches Fresson print?
It's not because this is called ART that it must be anything and nothing.
J'appelle cela de l'intellectualisme ou de la masturbation intellectuelle.
The best for the end; these prints are sponsored and payed by .......Polaroïd.
Is'nt it Polaroïd who helped a part of Charles Berger's researches for the
Ultrastable Color Process?
May be they forgot this fact, or may be do they help Fresson actually?
Marc Bruhat, tu dois appeller Polaroïd pour leur rafraichir la mémoire!
Gerard