From: Bill Marsh (redcloud54@earthlink.net)
Date: 07/24/03-05:15:26 PM Z
Hi, Manuel,
I've done 20x24s, and I know some of the other folks using
RBCs (Really Big Cameras) have done them, as well. It is a
matter, at least for me, of simply ramping up the size of
everything: trays, exposure unit, vacuum frame, amount of
chemistry, amount of sensitizer, brush size (that's what I
use, anyway) or coating rod size. Then you do really big
test strips! Wet paper handling becomes an art in itself.
Pouring on the developer is a little tricky, as the image
needs to be covered with it as near to all at once as
possible. I've gotten streaks from really hot developer
cooling as it ran across the face of the print. There is
probably another way to immerse the print, but I just do it
the way I do little ones.
It must have been an amazing effort to do prints as big as
those you describe, not to mention the expense in equipment.
She must have done the negs digitally, I would imagine, as
Kodak is pretty much out of the giant film business anymore,
but who knows?
Hope this helps.
Bill
Manuel Gomes Teixeira wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> Last week I went to see one exhibition of Platinum prints by spanish
> photographer Isabel Muñoz in Galeria Mário Sequeira here in Portugal.
> I confess that the subject matter does not appeals to me aesthetically
> or emotionally but I have to confess that apart from that, I was
> astonished by the quality and size (110cm x140cm - 43"x55") of those
> Platinum prints. They were quite warm in tone , perhaps more PD than PT and
> all the prints were amazingly regular across the exhibition.
> The paper probably was Arches Platine , by texture , color , and feeling.
>
> Can someone explain me how do you apply emulsion and develop those large
> prints with this quality?
>
> Please see this link:
> http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/exhibitionInfo/exhibition/11775/l
> ang/1/name/Isabel-Munoz---%E2%80%9CSurma-People%E2%80%9D
>
> Kindest regards to you all
>
>
> Manuel Gomes Teixeira
> Punctum Studios
> Portugal
>
>
>
>
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