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Re: BIG

At 1:41 PM +0000 10/7/00, Katharine Thayer wrote:
>Judy Seigel wrote:
>>
>>  On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Jack Fulton wrote:
>  Wall's wall sized pieces do echo for me but my favorites at the
>>  > moment are Susan Derges' photograms of English streams. Maybe they are not
>>  > THAT big but most wonderful.
>>
>>  I don't know the Derges photograms.  We're so far offtopic already, that
>>  seems quite ontopic. Can you describe?
>>
>
>She goes out at night and rolls out large pieces of Cibachrome paper
>under the surface of streams, or at the edge of the ocean where the surf
>can spill across it, and then shines a quick light to capture the image
>of the water itself, the textures and patterns of the moving water. The
>color of the print depends for some reason on the ambient light; a
>cloudy night will yield a different background color than a clear
>moonlit night, for example. I agree with Jack; they are quite wonderful,
>though all I've seen of them is in a book.

A net search finds that www.eyestorm.com is selling them.  They're
large, not big (30" x 11.5" for the ones I looked at.)  They look
like they could be quite lovely.

Greg