From: Katharine Thayer (kthayer@pacifier.com)
Date: 07/03/02-02:01:02 AM Z
Breukel, C (HKG) wrote:
>
>
> .I indeed did not print a straigth gum from thr Pyro neg, I used the gum
> layer to "fill in" the highlights/midtones of a deliberately
> underexposed kallitype. The gum coat does more than adding colour, it
> does reveal mid/highlight detail which was not present in the initial
> Kallitype print..
>
Hi Cor,
Thanks for that amplification. My characterization of the gum over
platinums that I've seen in reproduction was somewhat arbitrary, of
course, since it's impossible in looking at a multilayer print to tell
exactly what is contributed to the final image by each layer. This is
especially true when all the layers are gum, but also no doubt true when
only one of the layers is gum. It's just that in the few reproductions
I've seen of this kind of work, the gum layer doesn't seem to me to have
the range of tones I would expect to see in a gum print, is what I was
trying to say, but again, reproductions are deceiving and gum, as
someone pointed out to me recently, is one of the hardest kinds of print
to reproduce accurately. I'd still like to see the gum layer by itself.
Katharine
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