From: Manuel Gomes Teixeira (punctumgt@netvisao.pt)
Date: 07/24/03-05:37:39 PM Z
Hi Bill,
Thanks for your reply!
Concerning the negatives , my curiosity was attracted to that detail but
it seemed to me after looking very closely that they were analogic .Near
the borders we could notice some grain detail smoothing , more likely to be
from optical degradation at the enlarging stage than from uneven contact
negative/paper during exposure. No signs either of any of the digital
idiosyncrasies .
Manuel
> From: Bill Marsh <redcloud54@earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 19:15:26 -0400
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: Re: Isabel Muñoz giant Platinum prints.
>
> 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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