From: Galina Manikova (galina@online.no)
Date: 01/30/03-12:24:41 PM Z
Shannon,
could you, please, give more information about the building ? Where is it ?
Do you have a web site for it ?
I am particularly interested as I am working on a similar project at the
moment. I use a resist method similar to what Sam has been describing,
though I do not understand how one is supposed to develope a gelatin resist
with hot water (???) on a building wall.
I am using a resist transfer method: make a photograph ready on a support
and transfer it to concrete. Apply color, remove the resist. I use actually
a thick cement layer with added pigments, so I get a relief. The trick is to
remove the resist at a particular moment, while cement is still soft. I also
tried to wash it off, that gives an interesting effect too: cement is
washing off the resist, but not where it is sitting directly on the wall.
I would appreciate all available information on similar projects.
Regards to all !
Galina Manikova
Alternative alternative
Kiellands gate 1a
3183 Horten
Norway
Phone/fax: ++ 47 33 03 91 00
E-mail: galina@online.no
-----Original Message-----
From: Shannon Stoney [mailto:sstoney@pdq.net]
Sent: 30. januar 2003 18:13
To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
Subject: photographs on concrete
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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