Re: Re : Autochrome info request

[Beth Batchelor <beth.batchelor@ntlworld.com>]

on 30/5/02 1:21 AM, Halvor at halvorb@mac.com wrote:

> Okay, Here we go.
> 
> Down a dark and dusty corridor on my school, they have small rooms for
> teachers. To make accsess difficult there is big shelf's obstructing the
> path. I noticed one of these shelf's have the whole collection of "History
> of Photography".
> 
> I am not shure my friend will actually try to make it herself but will use
> it as a bacground for some other experiments.. anyway
> 
> Thanks again
> 
> halvor
> 
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> on 30.05.02 06:07, Jean-Paul Gandolfo at jpgalt@infonie.fr wrote:
> 
>> De : Jonathan Bailey <quryhous@midcoast.com>
>> À : alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>> Objet : RE: Autochrome info request
>> Date : Mer 29 mai 2002 17:14
> 
>> Is Jean-Paul Gandolfo still on this list??  He's in Paris teaching at The
>> Ecole Nationale de al Photographie
> 
> Hello Jonathan
> I am still there listening - from time to time -  to t he excellent topics
> avaliable on the list. Thank's again for the infos about orotone process you
> gave me last year.
> 
> 
> The paper quoted below gives many informations about autochrome
> technology.
> 
> Gandolfo JP, Lavedrine B, The autochrome process. from concept to prototype,
> History of Photography, 1994 summer, volume 18, number 2, p 120-128. In
> spite of the year he was publised, it's still up to date ....
> 
> History of Photography is a britih periodical. This ssue i s devoted to
> history of colour photography (early colour and
> the autochrome).
> The editor is : Taylor & Francis,School of Artr History, University of saint
> Andrews, Saint Andrews, KY 16 9 AD, Scotland.
> Editor e-mail : gs2@st-andrews.ac.uk
> I think  list people could find this issue in a good public library.
> We are still working about the process with my friend Bertrand Lavedrine).
> Next year,
> we hope to publish a book about autochrome history to celebrate the
> c entenary of the process (1903 december, first french patent of Lumiere
> brothers). An exhibition will be held in the Albert Kahn
> museum, a french collection, based west Paris,  with something like 72 000
> autochrome plates
> showing circa 40 countries all over the world (I spent seventeen years
> managing the photographic lab of the museum). Some papers, from the Lumiere
> factory, writen by Louis Lumiere will be publish at this time.
> We have made some modern (and alternative) tricolor screens used to produce
> color plates with
> an assembly method (black & white ilford FP4 + reversal developed, exposed
> behind the screen, removed, developed and registered again with our screen).
> The result was't as good compared with the original plate but at this time
> we haven't restored the last original Lumiere crushing machine still
> surviving.
> 
> I think the bigger problems to solve are  connected with the fact that it's
> an industrial process. The
> autochrome pla tes were produced between 1907 and 1932 (circa), at this
> time,
> the "do it yourself your process" is an old feeling belonging to the former
> century.
> We obtain good results in recreating the dye formulas (six dyes to give
> violet, green and orange color) and the varnishes. The crushing of potatoe
> starches will be more accurate with the machine we have restored. The
> panchromatic emulsion is also a serious problem. I think Martin Reed
> (London, Silverprint) has some ideas about this manufacturing step.
> 
> We hope to restart a new test this
> year. But, to recreate the original process is an hard  job - or a long way
> -and to my
> knowledge, the Lumiere process is still waiting a modern revival ...
> 
> I hope to cross the ocean next year for the 2003 APIS meeting. Perhaps an
> opportunity to met some of you and to talk about autochrome.
> 
> Best
> 
> 
> --
> Jean-Paul GANDOLFO
> French National School of Photography Louis Lumiere BP 22
> 93161 Noisy le Grand cedex
> 
> Tel : 01 48 15 40 20
> e-mail : jpgalt@infonie.fr
> 
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> 
> Dear Halvor

Nice to see you haven't changed that much

love 

Beth
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