From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 07/05/03-12:04:02 AM Z
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Christina Z. Anderson wrote:
> What I find throughout the literature on gum is no one criticizes
> Demachy's work. At least from within the field of gum printers. He,
> apparently, was renowned and praised throughout the photographic community
> and is used as a benchmark of the process. Gum printers in general may be
> criticized from outside the field, of course, as being too pictorial or
> schmaltzy.
Hi Chris,
One of my complaints about the old magazines was that they never or almost
never showed work in the medium they were how-toing... so if you've got
some that do illustrate the processes, I'd be mighy interested to see
them. Or are they books... or annuals? Can you name some names?
J.
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