From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 05/28/01-04:54:49 PM Z
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Christina Z. Anderson wrote:
> Has anyone actually tried William Mortenson's abrasion tone process?
> The only thing I can find on it is using powdered pumice on cotton to abrade
> the surface of a print that is printed darker than normal. Is it a schlocky
> technique? I have done a search on him on the Web and also see there is
> quite an archive of his stuff down in Arizona; is there some easy way to
> access a paper on it?
> Chris
Robert Gumpper (who'd been there) wrote in P-F #5 that the REAL cause of
Mortensen's downfall wasn't AD Coleman's fancied "conspiracy" by Newhall &
Co, but that very 1938 book on "Print Finishing":
[QUOTE]
"[Mortensen's] tone abrasion process killed him with his audience, when
they realized his pictures were worked over with a razor blade for hours.
Few people wanted to do that. But how else can you develop a negative to
gamma infinity and get something that looks like a Mortensen? I knew
someone who spent 18 hours with a blade on one print."
Judy
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