From: Richard Sullivan FRPS (richsul@earthlink.net)
Date: 09/20/01-01:14:26 PM Z
Christopher James's book was reviewed in the Washington Post. Great review.
It's a month old and maybe it was mentioned here before. Great book!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/essays/vanRiper/010817.htm
It is my first ever national press comment on my own work so I am tickled
about it.
Just a portion quoted here. Go to the link for the rest.
>To photographers like myself, whose personal work often is straight black
>and white documentary photography, a book that describes how to print
>photos on bed sheets may seem like an odd favorite. Let me say here: Much
>"alternative" work leaves me cold. I find far too much of it overproduced
>and under-inspired – a photographic throwback to the '70s, in which
>multi-layered images with mannered borders and fringes, used to tart up
>pedestrian photographs, resemble not so much inspired imagery as tie-dyed
>T-shirts.
>That said, James's book does much to dispel the notion that alternative
>process work is only about process. What sets this book apart from other
>books – that too often rely on the not-always-wonderful work of the author
>alone – is the gorgeous sampling of first-rate work by so many
>photographers, among them Sally Mann, George Tice, Anna Atkins, Julia
>Margaret Cameron, Jerry Uelsmann, Judy Vejvoda, Dick Sullivan and Deborah
>Luster. Virtually all of the work here, whether it be Luster's sensuous
>nude done with silverprint liquid emulsion on aluminum panels, or
>Sullivan's austere ziatypes (an offshoot of platinum/palladium), shows
>first and foremost a respect for the image. Only then does the alternative
>process chosen to display the image come into play, to create a
>satisfying, often beautiful, union.
Cheers.
--Dick Sullivan
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