From: Andrei Harwell (AHarwell@hhpa.com)
Date: 01/11/01-10:51:58 AM Z
I heard an article on NPR about something called "starch printing" which was
a "gentlemen's pursuit" at the turn of the century.
The article said that fresh leaves were laid out in the sun with a resist on
top of them -- where the sun penetrated the resist, starch formed in the
leaf.
Once exposed the leaves were died in iodine (which only adheres to the
starch?).
Has anyone tried this or have any add'l information about this process? I
would like to try it out, but there is a distinct lack of leaves in snowy,
wintertime NYC.
Thanks,
Andrei Harwell
-----Original Message-----
From: dalrymple [mailto:marilyn@rglobal.net]
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 10:05 AM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Re: re;leaf prints
The subject heading is 'leaf prints: chlorophylography and
photoripeography'. the conversation took place over the first half of 20000.
Yes,I would like to know how to do a leaf print. How did you attach the
transparency to the leaf? How long did it take to produce the image? Thanks
for any help you can offer
Birdie
-----------------------------------------------------Hi Birdie,
The leaf prints I am making are done with Rockland Liquid Light Photographic
Emulsion.
They have a web site at:
http://rockaloid.com/index.html <http://rockaloid.com/index.html>
First I soak then dry and flatten the leaves (between two boards with
newspaper in between until the leaves are dry). The leaves I use are ones
that have turned brown--I like the brown tone behind the image.
Then I coat the leaves with a water based polycrylic finish, let dry, coat
with the Liquid Light, then I expose under my enlarger just as I would
expose a piece of paper. So far I've only used black and white negatives.
I'm not sure how a color negative would do.
When all done, I coat the leaves again with the polycrylic finish. I make a
sheet of hand-made paper, have the leaf attached to that, then mount, matt
and frame.
The process is time consuming, messy and frustrating, but I really like the
results.
Marilyn
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