From: Christina Z. Anderson (zphoto@montana.net)
Date: 09/09/02-10:20:19 PM Z
Yes, it is left on the paper, not wholly lifted off like a polaroid emulsion
lift. It comes off in shreds, not a sheet.
Chris
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From: <Ender100@aol.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: mordancage and dye mordanting
> Does the etching process leave some gelatin on the paper, or is this or
the
> other process actually used to lift the gelatin from the surface so it can
be
> transferred to another substrate like water color paper.... similar to
what
> is done with polaroids???? Sorry for my ignorance on this.
>
> Mark Nelson
> In a message dated 9/9/02 11:38:57 PM, zphoto@montana.net writes:
>
> << Brihat, one of the practitioners of these processes. In the article,
which
>
> Jimmy so kindly scanned and sent to me (luckily I read French) Brihat
>
> mentions in there that Sudre was actually mistaken in calling his process
>
> mordancage (English translation would be mordanting), because the process
he
>
> and Sudre use is more of what Brihat terms a "grignotage" or a nibbling of
>
> the emulsion. That Sudre uses a formula more akin to bleach etch and NOT
a
>
> true mordanting formula is the case. >>
>
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