From: Hamish Stewart (hamish@gumphoto.fsnet.co.uk)
Date: 09/10/02-11:43:29 PM Z
On 10/9/02 04:36, "Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@montana.net> wrote:
> Well, in searching through arcane photo books and with the help of some
> on this list, I have figured out some stuff. Jimmy Peguet was the one who
> made it all clear to me. Thanks, Jimmy, for taking the time to help me out.
> Apparently there was an article in a French photography magazine about Denis
> 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
Christina,
I saw an expo of Brihat's work a few years back in Montpelier. Absolutely
stunning! Some of his images looked as if they had been printed in colour as
the colours generated from the toning were so varied.
I doubt there would be any substitute to seeing original prints as the
surface quality and the colour are so subtle.
Hamish
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