From: Maria Olmedo (MOlmedo@icp.edu)
Date: 09/14/01-12:03:41 PM Z
I just wanted to thank Lukas Werth and Fritz Wentzel for their posts.
List members, please don't get angry with each other.
It's difficult to be in New York right now. I feel badly saying this; I
haven't suffered the losses that so many have.
Yesterday, we were hemmed in with bomb threats, all around us, all at
the same time: Grand Central, Times Square, Empire State Building, Port
Authority Bus Terminal, Conde Nast building, 1133 Ave. of the Americas
(ICP Galleries are in this building). All these were closed and
evacuated at the same time. 42nd Street was closed. Thousands running
in all different directions. Fortunately, our building remained open
and we were able to stay put, although that was scary too.
I walked by a fire station at 48th and 8th Ave. It was unspeakably sad.
A makeshift memorial was set up for the firemen they had lost.
Photographs of approximately 15 smiling faces of young men who looked
not older than 30 yrs. old.
I started this message this morning. We've just been told our building
has rec'd a bomb threat. I think we're leaving. It's not over. Please
everyone just stick together.
later,
maria
-----Original Message-----
From: Lukas Werth [mailto:lukas.werth@rz.hu-berlin.de]
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 6:36 AM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Re: Editorial broadcast from Toronto/selen toner with salted
paper
A word of consolation from me also: do not get into "runaway" arguments
which only lead to polarisation (I hope you know what I mean: a
situation
where always the next answer leads to ever more excitement).
May I remind you that such a polarisation - albeit a much more horrible
one
- is what must have been the aim of the terrorists: to create a
situation
in which anger consumes every other feeling, and in the last resort
leads
to the utter disregard for human lives. Do not let this happen. I am
foremostly stunned by the sheer number of dead people, by all those
truncated lives, those fates. We heard here in Germany the voice of a
woman
who spoke the last goodbye to her husband over phone from the WTC on the
recorder at her home.
I feel it is this human quality of the whole tragedy we must not loose
sight of.
And here a question just for getting going again, to re-establish
communication: I have toned a further salt print in selenium toner,
dilution 1:200. Colour changed nearly instantly, bleach was much less,
can
be dealt with, so it was a success, sort of. But the result, though an
interesting brown colour unobtainable with gold, was clearly inferior to
it: no good blacks! The darkest tones, even on the rim outside the image
area, are of a brown which could do very well with some deepening.
Is this consistent with the observations of others concerning selenium
toning saltprints? Is there a way to get around this?
Lukas
At 14:38 13.09.01 +0000, you wrote:
>I agree with Dave: Political discussions are offtopic here at any time,
>and especially unhelpful now when we are all so emotionally fragile.
>
>I was determined to believe that we hadn't heard from Judy because she
>wasn't able to get online for some reason, and I'm most relieved and
>happy to know that was the case. We can be a quarrelsome lot at times,
>but in a crisis we forget our differences and worry about each other as
>if we were family, which in a way I guess we are.
>
>Katharine Thayer
>
>
>FotoDave@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> Let us not argue or debate in difficult moment like this.
>>
>> While I missed it on TV, I felt so touched and moved when I heard
that the
>> Buckingham Palace played the national anthem of the USA today. Thank
you!
>>
>> Dave S
>
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