Jan,
I just want to say that I am very glad to see you on this list. When I
first got interested in the alternative processes I found your book one of
the best around. What kind of work are you doing today?
Of the reasons you list below for the reasons people were beginning to get
into alternative photograhic processes back then (1982), at least four
still strike me as highly relevalnt to the contemporary period, #2-5. Given
the big bucks some folks spend on palladium/platinum I have some
reservations about the first!!
Sandy King
>Wow! I was just going through a journal of mine from 1982 (!) and came
>across this list of reasons people were then beginning to get into
>alternative photographic processes:
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>1. Increased cost and scarcity of silver;
>2. Growing quest for permenancy of the prints (less fading, staining, and
>general deterioration);
>3. Dissatisfaction with homogeneous results from conventional photographic
>materials;
>4. Strong feelings of anti-commercialism;
>5. Interest in returning to the roots of photography that paralleled the
>back-to-the-land phenomenon.
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>Here's a question for all of us: why are we involved with alternative
>processes today, nearly 20 years later?
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>Best,
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>Jan Arnow
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