From: Robert W. Schramm (schrammrus@hotmail.com)
Date: 01/17/02-05:16:25 PM Z
It took me two years almost to locate a 150 mm f 2.8 lens for my 4 x 5 so I
could make daguerreotypes in full sunlight with a 15 sec exposure.
Maybe he has some really, really quickstuff he is using but 3 sec.????
Hard to believe. If its true, I would pay money to find out how its done.
Bob Schramm
>From: Phillip Murphy <pmurf@bellsouth.net>
>Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Re: Jerry Spagnoli dags
>Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 04:44:20 -0600
>
>The daguerreotype that appears as the last image in Doubletake magazine's
>special
>edition of the events of 9/11 is a full plate that was one of three that
>Jerry made
>that morning from his rooftop. His exposures were approximately three
>seconds for
>each plate; going back to his studio between exposures to prepare each
>plate as the
>events unfolded. Typically, Jerry's exposures are around sixteen seconds,
>however, he
>used a faster lens in this case to capture the smoke from the towers which
>would have
>been invisible to the Dag if longer exposures had been used. The complete
>interview
>can be heard on the npr.com web site. Search using keyword: Daguerreotype.
>
>Judy Seigel wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 quryhous@midcoast.com wrote:
> > >
> > > Sorry to mislead you about Jerry's show at Houk - the images are not
>of
> > > his "Vanishing City Series" (the NYC cityscapes, including the first
>WTC tower
> > > collapsing...) - but are of another group entirely - this exhibition
>is of body
> > > parts (hands, backs of heads etc) and is a stunning group of work (all
>full
> > > plates...). It's at Houk until the 26th, if memory serves...
> >
> > Actually Jon, I think I misled me. I'd spoken to Lyle more or less
> > mid-October, he'd remarked on Jerry's dag of the attack & I just assumed
> > this was that. It did make a splendid story -- it seems Jerry had view
>of
> > WTC from his 23rd (or so) Street studio. Took an 8-hour exposure of the
> > burning... all you saw from that distance was smoke. But we might say
>the
> > only original dag of that event.
> >
> > Anyway, I'm glad to have the point clarified... you know how tough it is
> > for me to get uptown...
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Judy
>
>
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