From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 07/18/01-08:48:38 PM Z
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Jonathan Bailey wrote:
> > 2. Where can I get chemicals for sensitizing the plate?
>
> Less and less easy. Like obtaining the plates, networking with practicing
> daguerreotypists will solve many of these issues. (Also, check out the
> resources listings at the back of The Worlds Journal of Post-Factory
> Photography.)
I think a lot of the answers to these start-up questions would also be in
Bob Schramm's article, Post-Factory # 4, "How an Old Alternate-Process
Printer from a Small Town in West Virginia Learned to Make a
Daguerreotype."
Bob took Ken Nelson's workshop, which he describes, came away inspired --
and STRONGLY urges anyone contemplating the process to begin with a
workshop. When he got home, he set about configuring his own dag studio:
tells how he got a local shop to make the mercury pot, made his own fume
hood, bromine box, found (finally) right kind of buffing wheel, etc. etc.
With photos. He also includes a page of Dag suppliers -- which aren't in
fact in the regular P-F listings.
As noted, Chris or whoever could have P-F #4 as "free intro" for cost of
postage... write me offlist. (But note, folks, P-F is a PRINT publication
-- yes, real paper.)
Judy
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