From: Mateo Leyba (mateo@mateoleyba.com)
Date: 03/13/03-05:49:56 PM Z
If I understand it correctly, the work Stewart and Kerik are doing with
gum is a technique they have been working on over the last few months.
I think it's straight gum too, not over PT.
mateo
On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 04:06 PM, Dave Rose wrote:
> After re-reading Stuart Melvin's article in the July/August 2001 issue
> of
> View Camera magazine, I don't understand why it's considered "new
> ground
> work". His gum printing procedure is about as straightforward and
> 'traditional' as any I've ever seen. Gum over platinum is hardly a
> novel
> idea. It was done many, many years ago. Edward Steichen's "The
> Flatiron",
> 1905, is a good example of an early gum over platinum.
>
> Am I unaware of radical new discoveries in gum or combination
> gum/platinum
> printing that Melvin has made since 2001?
>
> My comments are in no way intended to diminish or dismiss Mr. Melvin's
> work.
> Based on the reproductions in View Camera, he's clearly producing some
> exciting and beautiful work. I just don't see how his printing
> procedure is
> new or different enough to warrant consideration of a new name.
>
> Best regards,
> Dave Rose
> Big Wonderful Wyoming
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Sullivan" <richsul@earthlink.net>
> To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 9:43 AM
> Subject: The Holy Grail
>
> (snip)
> "I find it exciting that people like you Pete, are developing new
> processes.
> Yours is really a "gum" based process but sufficiently different
> enough to
> have a new name. The new ground work Melvin is doing is also
> phenomenal and
> though it is traditional "gum" in the basics, it too may deserve a new
> name."
>
>
>
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