Re: "New" Gum Process?

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From: Dave Rose (cactuscowboy@attbi.com)
Date: 03/13/03-10:50:18 PM Z


Thanks for the follow up Dick.

It doesn't look like my work schedule will allow attending APIS. :'-(
Hopefully Stuart will publish his findings.

Best regards,
Dave in Wyoming

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Sullivan" <richsul@earthlink.net>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: "New" Gum Process?

> Stuart has made significant inroads into gum printing in the last 18
> months. I am not at liberty to discuss exactly what he has discovered
since
> that will be the punch line of his APIS presentation this July in Santa
Fe.
> I can say that there are significant changes to what his procedure is now
> versus then.
>
> I can say he is one of those rare persons who can sniff out the
significant
> variables in an alt process. Of course he has also dedicated virtually
full
> time to this project. This is his life's work thanks to his wife Rosey's
> dedicated support.
>
>
>
> --Dick Sullivan
>
> At 04:06 PM 3/13/2003 -0700, you 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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