Liam's POP recipe, was Re: Salt prints??

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From: Sandy King (sanking@hubcap.clemson.edu)
Date: 02/22/01-05:15:50 AM Z

Thanks for the note about Liam Lawless' POP recipe. I was wondering if
anyone had actually worked with it. I thought it was a wonderfully
researched and detailed article and have been meaning to give the process a
try myself but have not had the time. Do you have any hints or tips to
share with us that go beyond what Liam provided?

Sandy King

>>What I really mean is probably: is the process really worth the effort, or
>>is the main attraction its antiquity? I would be grateful for any input.
>
>I once bought a book of Nadar photographs (Schirmer & Mosel) and was
>fascinated, among others things, by the technical quality of the
>images. Nadar used for the most part paper negatives and simple POP,
>later albumen POP. If you'd like to know what POP or salt prints are
>capable of, I suggest that you flick through a book like this.
>
>>Second, is sodium chloride okay for salting (as said in "spirits of salts")?
>
>Yes, it is. You can use the kind sold in the shop around the corner.
>Some suggested that you can control gradation by varying proportions
>of sodium and ammonium chloride. (I have not tried this myself.)
>
>I found that Liam Lawless's recipe for POP (in Judy's most recent
>PostFactory) works fabulously (many thanks, Liam!). IMHO POP is
>easier, cheaper and more consistent than salted paper. (By "POP"
>here I mean a paper coated with a mixture of salt and silver nitrate
>in water or gelatine -- as opposed to salted paper where you first
>coat with a salt solution and then with silver nitrate.)
>
>
>André

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