I like the way that I have more control in the entire process---the artist's
hand, so to speak. I'd make my own paper,too, if I had the materials and
time!
Pinholeman
>From: Jan Arnow <jarnow@iglou.com>
>Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Reasons for alternative processes
>Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 17:35:58 -0500
>
>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.
>
>Here's a question for all of us: why are we involved with alternative
>processes today, nearly 20 years later?
>
>Best,
>
>Jan Arnow
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