From: Philippe Ayral (payral@club-internet.fr)
Date: 06/17/02-11:28:36 AM Z
It can be done in Switzerland too by Ted Support, he is making wonderfull
things with different plexi qualities.
-- Philippe Ayral 52, rue de Vallard 74240 Gaillard France Tél/Fax: +33 (0)450 39 79 81 http://perso.club-internet.fr/payral http://www.focale.ch> De : Jack Fulton <jfulton@itsa.ucsf.edu> > Répondre à : alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca > Date : Mon, 17 Jun 2002 06:29:56 -0700 > À : alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca > Objet : Re: 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 > > These prints, and others by German photographers, are mounted w/the > plexi-glas on the surface of the image. It is a unique process done in (I > believe) in either Dusseldorf or Frankfurt. As I understand it the process > is one that uses a high pressure and perhaps as Neil Oshima wrote, it might > be an aquarium sealant made of silicone. > I learned this from the conservator @ the SFMOMA . . if I find out more, > I'll let you all know. > Jack Fulton >
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