From: Darryl Baird (dbaird@umflint.edu)
Date: 02/24/03-08:26:51 PM Z
Livick does spray the very large sizes, but not all his prints. Last
time I spoke to Stephen he was making small prints, as part of a very
(very) large photo mosaic.
Darryl
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On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 09:13 PM, Judy Seigel wrote:
>
> On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Christina Z. Anderson wrote:
>
>> ... spray starch as per
>> Hirsch (I heard it yellows) and cannot believe that Livick actually
>> brushes
>> his sizing on, too. That'd save a heck of a lot of time.
>
> Chris, I rarely bet less than a million dollars, but reading Hirsch's
> comments about gum printing, I'd bet he never made a gum print -- or
> let's
> say he should have done some research first. For instance, he says you
> can't get a true blue with gum because the dichromate stains it, & that
> "gum does not deliver a realistic color balance" (whatever that's
> supposed
> to mean). And so forth. Of course even maven gum printers disagree --
> for
> instance Julian Smart says he "previsualizes" gum -- I tend to work ad
> hoc, letting the process/results guide me. That's probably as much
> personality as the medium-- I find gum more generous when I let in the
> surprises.
>
> But if you've got Livick's book -- doesn't he say he sprays on the
> emulsion? That's my sort of vague but sort of recollection.
>
>
> Judy
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