From: Richard Knoppow (dickburk@ix.netcom.com)
Date: 06/16/02-02:10:33 AM Z
At 10:41 PM 06/15/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>I don't know if this is a true alt-process question, but...
>
>I just saw a show in Dallas of Thomas Struth's photography. (You may have
>read about this show in a recent issue of the New Yorker.) Some of the
>prints are huge color prints printed on plexiglass, it appears. My partner
>read somewhere in the exhibit that this is the case. I am wondering how
>this is done. Is color emulsion "brushed" onto the plexiglass and then the
>plexi/emulsion is exposed and developed like any other color print? Can
>you "brush" other sorts of emulsions onto plexiglass?
>
>The black and white silver gelatin prints were really beautiful also. In
>fact I liked them better than the color prints. They would have been great
>in pt/pd, but you have to admit, sometimes silver gelatin has its
>applications.
>
>--shannon
>
I have no specific information about how these prints are made but you
can be pretty sure its not just coated with color emulsion. Color films and
paper have rather complex emulsions consisting of many coating which must
all be applied quite precisely. I suspect, if they are not made on some
sort of ink-jet printer and are actual photographic color, that its
emulsions stripped from some other suppport and transferred to the
plexiglass.
Probably someone on this list knows exactly.
---- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles, CA, USA dickburk@ix.netcom.com
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