From: Bill Marsh (redcloud54@earthlink.net)
Date: 07/24/03-06:43:35 PM Z
Somebody out there is making really big film then. I wish I
knew who.
Bill
Manuel Gomes Teixeira wrote:
> Hi Bill,
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> 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 .
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> Manuel
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>>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.
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>>Hi, Manuel,
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>>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.
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>>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?
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>>Hope this helps.
>>
>>Bill
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>>Manuel Gomes Teixeira wrote:
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>>>Hi ,
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>>>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?
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>>>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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