Re: new alt process--gelatin silver

I've had the same reaction to asking about seeing gum prints in major museum
collections. The curators have suggested that if I knew the names of some
photographers that printed gum she could get them out and I could see if
they had anything I was interested in... but no awareness of what methods
the prints might have been made with.

Jack

> From: "Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@bellsouth.net>
> Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
> Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 09:42:14 -0400
> To: Alt list <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
> Subject: new alt process--gelatin silver
>
> Hello!
> Man oh man has the list been quiet of late, so I thought I'd share a
> maddening comment made at a panel.
>
> The panel was in Washington DC at a conference I was at, the third of three
> this spring. Never again. Anyway, it was a printmaking conference (as in
> silkscreen, mezzotint, that kind of printmaking) with very prestigious
> people on the panel, including the curator of prints and photography of the
> Library of Congress, two of the printmakers for big mane artists, an art
> editor from Art in America, and it was held at the Library of Congress.
>
> One of the panel members was talkiing about this or that and said,
> offhandedly, "And there are even some schools that teach wet darkroom,
> still--I mean, hello, wet darkroom is DEAD." He was a bit less vernacular
> than I. NO ONE in the room nor the other panel members corrected him--they
> all nodded knowingly.
>
> Granted, this was not a photography conference, but I was pretty shocked as
> I watched myself become a dinosaur. I figure within my lifetime, gelatin
> silver will be added as a suitable topic for this alt list.
>
> BTW, the Library of Congress has 100,000 prints in their collection. When I
> asked the curator if there were any gum prints I could see, she did not know
> what I was talking about. Sigh.
> Chris
>
Received on Thu Apr 7 09:54:01 2005