From: Robert W. Schramm (schrammrus@hotmail.com)
Date: 05/11/01-10:14:35 AM Z
Lukas,
I have frequently put cyanotype, VDB and uranotype over platinum. This gives
me a duotone effect. Using the same negative, I print the platinum a little
light and the other processes deeper to fill in the details. I have done
this up to 11 x 14.
Bob Schramm
>From: Lukas Werth <lukas.werth@rz.hu-berlin.de>
>Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: gum over platinum and the like
>Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 00:17:56 +0200
>
>I am currently exploring ways of combination printing, like gum over
>platinum, and I would like to ask whether there are other people practicing
>such methods, and, above all, which effects, or artistic ends they try to
>achieve.
>Steichen tried, as far as I know, to get, among other things, color
>effects.
>"Spirits of salts" mentions the shadows were emphasized in old platinum
>prints by this method, and Heinrich Kuehn writes that tonal values can be
>grouped together in a platinum image by placing a layer of gum over them
>(for him, the richness of midtimes was something distracting, which
>deserved to be counteracted).
>What is it you are after? I ask this to get an idea of the artistic
>possibilities such printing methods.
>
>Lukas
>
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