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Hello Manuel,
I know there is much truth in your words, I feel
also very lonely with my photographic work here in Austria - I think I can count
the people on one hand who make alternative techniques.
But if we would think more global in this case we
will find that there is a great family worldwide and we are a part of
it.
Today it is no real problem to go shopping in a
foreign country from home via internet, the shipping is faster and cheaper
than ever so there is no real barrier to buy papers in USA, films in Great
Britain or France, Japan ....
If you are really interested you have the chance
to develop your own characteristic style in platinum, carbon or gum - the old
masters had no internet, no telephone and video and used there chance to create
an unique style - Art.
I think for the next future the availability of
materials is safed.
Maybe I can welcome you at my platinum workshop
in August - not only to show "how" to print - more "why" to print in this
style.
Best wishes
Harald
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Gesendet: Montag, 23. April 2001
02:08
Betreff: Re: Harald Leban is back
Dear Harald,
I'm very pleased to hear news
from you.
Your name is very familiar to me from books ,and
from..... the Rollo-Pyro bottle I've ordered from Lotus View Camera :-).
I
hope to attend your workshop in August and to learn more about
Pyro and Platinum-Palladium.
I've made my first platinum print
two years ago, and almost everything I learned afterwards was from
trial and error, plus all the literature and magazines I
could get.
To be honest I don't know anyone here in Portugal to
exchange experiences about this matter, and as you can imagine
apart from the impossibility to get most of necessary chemistry ingredients
and paper near home, make this mission sometimes
rather difficult.
I think that this does not only applies
to this country but for Europe in general.
Where are the
european Platinum printers and Pyro enthusiasts ? 99% of the
information and resources I get are from USA. I 'm sure that if
was not their market potential almost all large format related
products would be discontinued.
My only hope is that the
growing interest in traditional photographic processes will get
stronger and stronger in USA , Europe and in rest of the
world .
Best regards from Portugal
Manuel Gomes Teixeira
Punctum Studios Ltd
Portugal
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Hello from Austria,
after a nearly ONE-year
absence from this list I have subscribed it again to hear some good news
about Pyro-developing, Platinum/Palladium and Gold-Printing etc.. - from
good old and hopefully new friends.
How do you
feel the regular high prices of Palladium metal ?
For a portfolio of Platinum prints I am looking for the right
paper and don´t want to test them all.
Somebody out there who knows a
good paper which should be available on the European market with equal
characteristics (weight, surface) like the Cranes Kid Paper ? I had
great success with this paper in the past.
Thank
you in advance
Harald
Harald Leban
hleban@telering.at
Austria /
E.U.
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