From: Christina Z. Anderson (zphoto@montana.net)
Date: 09/10/02-09:06:02 PM Z
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From: "Sandy King" <sanking@CLEMSON.EDU>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: Gum bichromate and photographing the nude, was Re: "CALENDAR
ARTIST"
> Kerik wrote:
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> >Anyone who saw Stuart Melvin's gum prints at Platypus this year
> >knows that gum prints CAN be the opposite of grainy and with limited
> >detail.
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> >Grainy and lacking in detail is Old School! : )
> >
> >Kerik
> >
> >>>Let's get back to discussing something really relevant, like "can
> >>>the male/female photographer who shoots nudes only as a pretense
> >>>for looking at naked women/men really be satisfied with the
> >>>grainy look and limited detail of the gum bichromate process"?
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> Indeed. Stuart Melvin's prints do show a lot of detail. But does not
> the appearance of detail come from the first platinum layer? For
> example, if you compare three-color gum prints made with cyan,
> magenta and yellow gum layers the appearance of sharpness is much
> less than when you use a cyanotype for the blue record instead of gum.
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> Sandy
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