From: Neal Oshima (noshima@info.com.ph)
Date: 06/17/02-05:11:47 AM Z
Shannon, I've seen cibachrome prints mounted face-up on the back side of .5"
plexiglass using a clear adhesive (I'm told it was similar to silicone
aquarium sealant). The effect was as if the print was made directly on the
plexi, visible even through the polished edges of the plexiglass.
Neal
> From: Shannon Stoney <shannonstoney@earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
> Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 16:51:06 -0700
> To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
> Subject: Re: Thomas Struth show and prints on plexiglass
>
> It's at the Dallas Museum of Art, downtown. My visit on Thursday was my
> first to this museum, and I really liked it. They were having a free jazz
> festival in the museum and it was crowded with happy people. It seemed very
> open and easy to navigate. I want to go back and look at the rest of the
> collection sometime.
>
> --shannon
>
> ----------
>> From: Eric Neilsen <e.neilsen@worldnet.att.net>
>> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>> Subject: RE: Thomas Struth show and prints on plexiglass
>> Date: Sun, Jun 16, 2002, 1:23 PM
>>
>
>> Where in Dallas? It is possible that they were mounted large prints.
>> Both Kodak and Ilford made transparency print material up to 50" wide.
>> Use a clear laminate and there you have it.
>>
>> I have yet to try it, but thin Plexiglas could run through a large ink
>> jet.
>>
>> Eric Neilsen
>> 10219 Lynford Dr
>> Dallas, TX 75238
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Shannon Stoney [mailto:shannonstoney@earthlink.net]
>> Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 12:41 AM
>> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>> Subject: Thomas Struth show and prints on plexiglass
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>
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