PinholeRenner@netscape.net
Date: 12/07/00-06:18:25 PM Z
being new to this list I missed the information on the all gum online show . could someone please give me the info so I can check it out ?
thanks,
chip renner
alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca wrote:
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> Randall Webb wrote:
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Katharine Thayer <kthayer@pacifier.com>
> > To: <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
> > Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 3:20 AM
> > Subject: Re: All Gum Show online exhibit
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> > Katherine Thayer wrote.
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> > << Due to equipment problems I've been offline for a while and have just
> > now had an opportunity to see this online gum show>>
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> > I was also intereested to see the on-line Gum exhibition. Despite the
> > drawbacks of seeing the images on screen it was very enjoyable. Both the
> > images and the techniques were of high quality. It was good to see gum
> > printers working in black and white. That takes us back! The other virtue
> > is the fact that it exists. With the notable exception Peter Fredricks
> > Fotempera school we see very few gums on show in the UK. And those that we
> > see are years old and of the pseudo pictorialist, misty morning variety.
> > After seeing the on-line gum show I am tempted to try it myself!
> > Randall Webb
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> Thanks Randall for the plug re our School of Temperaprint. I too was most
> impressed with the all Gum online show, my only disappointment was not
> seeing Katherine's contribution. Randall is quite correct in his summation
> that we do have a dearth of gum workers in the UK at the moment, and the work
> I have seen is very retrospective in character. I am not against this in
> principal , what is one persons meat is another 's poison, but I do feel that
> Art in general and alternative printmaking in particular is most effective
> if it relates to its time rather than showing a romantic interpretation of
> a world that no longer exists
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