Re: Negative Montages and Gender Politics, may be considered OT

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sbell1@artic.edu
Date: 09/14/03-01:55:43 PM Z


Hey Mark,

i can print enlargable negatives from the computer? i guess i have heard about
people doing that, but i always thought it was a myth! what is the process?

cheers,
Steve

Quoting Ender100@aol.com:

> Why not keep the original negatives, scan them in and do the work in
> Photoshop.... you could print negatives and then cut those up and sew them
> together if
> you want....
>
> Mark Nelson
> In a message dated 9/13/03 6:48:59 PM, sbell1@artic.edu writes:
>
> << now what i planned to do was to sew the negatives together, which i will
>
> do
>
> partially, as that is definitely a gender cue in and of itself, but i don't
>
>
> want that to be my only technique for affixing the negatives to each other.
>
>
> does anybody have any experience with this kind of thing? i remember reading
>
>
> in the James book about a photographer who, towards the end of his career,
>
> took the tons of negatives that he had over the years and did a similar
> thing,
>
> making 8x10 contact prints of negative collages. my copy of that book is back
>
>
> in baltimore, so if anyone knows who that artist is, that would be a helpful
>
>
> resource.
>
>
> any ideas? >>
>
>


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