From: Sandy King (sanking@clemson.edu)
Date: 07/26/03-12:02:27 PM Z
Dick Sullivan wrote:
>
>Why all the hostility about one person who has spent a great deal of
>time improving the gum process and then having the grace to show us
>how he does it. I can't count the number of times folks at APIS came
>up and commented on how everyone was sharing their "secrets." No one
>is forcing you to do anything different in your printing, least of
>all Stuart.
>
This is one of those rare days when I get to agree with both Judy
Seigel and Dick Sullivan.
I am offended by the obvious hostility being directed at Stuart. I
participated last summer with Stuary on a panel on alternative
printing at the View Camera Conference. In his presentation, and in
a subsequent conversation I had with Stuart, he showed himself to be
a meticulous craftsman and his prints are beautiful. Plus, he has
generously shared his techniques with many other persons, including a
number of printers on this list.
I also don't subscribe to the theory that everything we need to know
about gum printing was set in stone 100 years ago. People like Stuart
Melvin and Sam Wang and a bunch of other gum printers, including many
on this list, are constantly tweeking the process with refinements
that are producing a new kind of imagery.
As a viable working process carbon printing is now over 155 years
old, some 50 years or so older than gum bichromate. And yet I am
amazed by the innovative techniques that have appeared in carbon
printing during the contemporary period. Personally I rejoice when
I learn of these innovations because they have the potential to make
me a better printer. I would just mention by example the idea
advanced first by Bob Nugent of using a frame flexible magnetic
sheeting materials when pouring the pigmented gelatin to make carbon
tissue. This idea, which I adopted and refined and now describe in my
carbon book, has made the home manufacturer of carbon tissue a much
simpler and neater process for me, and I suspect for a number of
others as well.
Sandy King
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