From: Christina Z. Anderson (zphoto@montana.net)
Date: 03/01/03-02:17:54 PM Z
Hi Jack!
I had NO idea "gummist" was such a loaded term. Thanks for
enlightening me. It's just so easy to say. Gum printer is so...long and
sounds like we are printmakers. Gum photographer, maybe?
I am glad you came out of the woodwork to post. I've counted, now,
about 30 of us--out of 600 that still isn't very many...(isn't it 600 on the
list?)
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Brubaker" <jack@jackbrubaker.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: gum printing
>
> In responce to the request to identify lurking gum printers I respond
> belatedly do to loosing the power cord to my laptop for a week.
>
> I have never been comfortable with the term "gumist". I began gum printing
> in the 60's and read the old sources I could find at Indiana University at
> that time. It seems to me that the early users of the gumist term were
> printers trying to claim they were more of an artist than other printers
> because they used the gum process whether they had any content to print of
> not. A few years later the term was used a lot by the refomers who wanted
to
> trivialize the gum printers. I know its a loosing battle to fight the use
of
> a word already in use. It takes a much larger movement that I am prepared
to
> mount to make such a change (the feminists managed to change a lot of
> vocabulary but it took years). But for the record I make gum prints I'm
not
> a gumist. To me gumists are the fad printers of the turn of the century
who
> jumped on the bandwagon and gave the process a bad name.
>
> I've never found a color that clearly caused the process to fail
chemically.
> There have been many coatings that have failed. But in each case there was
> always some other probable cause. I'll admit to printing with gum in part
> because I like the lack of absolute rules. There is almost always some way
> in which some odd method or material can work. That incredable flexability
> has (in my opinion) led to the many working methods used by different
> printers, and secondarily to the differences of opinion on spicific
> techniques.
>
> Vive la differance! It is great to hear from so many with so many ways of
> working. It is wonderful to be knocked off ballance by new twists to
things
> we have done for a while and begun to believe in...
>
> Jack Brubaker
>
>
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