Re: penn platinum

Luis Nadeau (nadeaul@nbnet.nb.ca)
Sun, 01 Mar 1998 11:15:35 -0400

At 5:40 AM -0500 98/03/01, Nze christian wrote:
>hello all
>
>i see an exhibition at the "maison européenne de la photographie" called
>platinum test .In fact there lot of test made by penn irving when he begin
>to make platinum prints (we can see the paper he use and things like that).
>as intrduction to the exhibition they told that he used platinum, palladium
>and iridium.
>making platinum palladium print, i never try to put iridium salt in it and
>would be interesting by someone who can tell the effect it had on the
>picture.

His prints made by this techique were almost half as good as many prints I
have seen made without iridium salt and other snake oil additives...

Luis Nadeau
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Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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