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Re: Epson or HP for alt-phot ... ? (some OT)
> At 09:58 PM 3/22/00 -0500, Sarah Van Keuren wrote:
>
>>Printing in gum I used to cut out masks of frosted mylar or rubylith and
>>place them on top of the plate glass of my contact frame while my pinhole
>>negative was exposing.
>
> Emmett Gowen wrote about a similar practice he learned from (I think)
> Frederick Sommer using waxed paper "topographic" masks made from multiple
> layers of waxed paper, in one of the Lustrum Press "Darkroom" books.
>
> Mitch V.
>
>Yes, I got the idea for 'contour masking' from Emmett Gowen when he lectured at
the Photography Place in Philadelphia back around 1980. He said that he'd
never made a view camera negative where he was completely satisfied with the
distribution of light and dark and he showed one of the multilayered mylar
masks that he would place on top of plate glass over the sandwich of
negative and silver gelatin paper.
Sarah Van Keuren
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