From: Gordon J. Holtslander (holtsg@duke.usask.ca)
Date: 01/30/03-11:28:13 AM Z
Hi:
Perhaps they were photoceramics? I'm guessing that photoceramics are far
more common in Europe than in North America.
I've seen a few in a small cemetary outside Saskatoon, on some of the
older tombstones from the turn of the century. They seem to have lasted
quite well.
I haven't seen photoceramics anywhere else.
Gord
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Shannon Stoney wrote:
> Last night my partner and I went to a lecture about Swiss
> architecture. We saw a slide of a library in a small town in
> Switzerland that was decorated on the outside with photographs. The
> photographs were somehow embedded in or printed onto concrete! there
> was no question and answer period after the lecture so we couldn't
> find out how this was done. We thought it might be a relief
> sculpture, as it were, perhaps made by a process like photogravure
> where the forms of the concrete had been treated with a photopolymer
> emulsion like on Solarplate, so that the concrete retained the
> impression of the photograph. Also we thought it might have been
> done with Liquid Light, but would Liquid Light be able to withstand
> weathering outside?
>
> If anybody knows anything about this process or this building, we'd
> be interested.
>
> --shannon
>
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