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

Chris,

Have you considered that you may be the only one that feels this way?

Joe

Joseph Smigiel, Educational Specialist
Art Department
Kalamazoo Valley Community College
6767 West "O" Avenue
Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA 49003-4070

telephone: 269.488.4647
fax: 269.488.4115
email: jsmigiel@kvcc.edu
>>> chris@chrisportfolio.com 02/01/04 11:00 AM >>>
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 Mon Feb 2 07:14:39 2004