RE: Only fifty photogs working with platinotype/palladiotype!?

And I am surely only one of 25 people or so in the world to have made
a 20X24" monochrome carbon print from an original in-camera negative
within the last five years.

Or would that be one of 5 within the last 50 years?

Sandy

>I KNOW I'm 1 of only 25 people in the world that make Daguerreotypes!
>Right....Right?
>
>Hmmmm...well I'm 1 of only 10 people in the world that makes Becquerel 4"x5"
>plates using a barrel lens without an aperture.
>
>Actually I'm only 1 of 5 people in the world that makes Becquerel 4"x5"
>plates using a barrel lens without an aperture with a bad buffing and poor
>gliding technique (on purpose mind you!!...hehehe).
>
>Well I KNOW I'm the only one in the world that makes Becquerel 4"x5" plates
>using a barrel lens without an aperture in an old SpeedGraphic press camera
>with a bad buffing and poor gliding technique of blurry self-portraits with
>objects during the summer hours of 11am-2pm Eastern Standard Time in Central
>New York on my friends property that has a huge Stone Barn in the shape of a
>castle.
>
>Can I put that up on my website?
>
>
>----------------
>
>Sorry just got to this thread and I found it a great laugh! I wrote not with
>the intention to pick on Gary but to point out something that seems to be an
>issue most of us fight with. This need to be "the only one" doing something
>in art this day and age is a tremendous pressure falsely put on many us.
>It's all BS and once you get over it and just get back to doing and not
>worrying if you are unique, your mind is set free and your greatest work
>will appear.
>
>-Chris
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Loris Medici [mailto:loris_medici@yahoo.com]
>Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 5:39 AM
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Re: Only fifty photogs working with platinotype/palladiotype!?
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Judy Seigel" <jseigel@panix.com>
>To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
>Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 8:12 AM
>Subject: Re: Only fifty photogs working with platinotype/palladiotype!?
>
>
>>
>> On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Loris Medici wrote:
>>
>> > In Gary Auerbach's site it is claimed that:
>> >
>> > "My specialty is portraiture, specifically large format platinum
>> > portraiture. With less than fifty photographers in the world working in
>> > this medium, I find satisfaction in educating a public that knows little
>> > about platinum photography and the platinotype."
>>
>> I don't know if I'm going to have the energy tonight to correct the
>> misreadings of my remarks on archival and sharpness... but here's an easy
>> one. More proof of low level of reading comprehension around here, I mean
>> besides twisting my remarks. I'd flunk all respondents to this one on
>> their SATs. (Although Loris should get a pass if he's English as a 2nd
>> language.)
>> ...
>
>Ooops! You're somehow right, I could have more carefully read and tried
>harder to comprehend what had wrote. Buy I think Gary is more a "sloppy
>writter" (with your words) than I'm unable to comprehend what I read -
>because after the claim, he continues with "...educating people about
>[platinum photography and the platinotype]..." not [platinum portraiture],
>so I understand the "medium" IS "platinum photography" NOT "platinum
>portraiture". Whatever, my original intend was not bashing Gary but checking
>whether my opinion about the number of Platinum/Palladium workers is right
>or not (I think they're much more than 50 worldwide and even in this list
>there should be more than 50 persons who practice in platinum/palladium
>medium).
>
>I'm not a native English speaker BTW (being a Turkish of Italian origin -
>quite a combination!).
>
>Regards,
>Loris.
Received on Sun Feb 1 10:20:12 2004