RE: new alt process--gelatin silver

I recently went to hear Anne Tucker speak. She is the curator at the
Houston Museum. She also appeared on a local NPR radio show. I had emailed
in a question about platinum/palladium and alternative prints. In her
answer, she went in to an explanation of silver gelatin, touched on albumen
and made references to platinum that were less than totally acurate. She
did mention gum, kallitype, etc. I was trying to get her to talk about the
collection and value of them.

I am afraid that not only are the curator more marketing than photo
substance, the museum system is some what corrupted by lack of money. They
do what they have to to survive.

Eric Neilsen Photography
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kate M [mailto:kateb@paradise.net.nz]
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 3:07 PM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: RE: new alt process--gelatin silver
>
> This suggests to me a lack of cataloguing skills - and an abysmal lack
> of photographic-historical knowledge. Imagine if we did this to painting
> - um...colour field work? Never heard of it...now, if you could get the
> name of some of the painters, we could look them up on the catalogue??
> To be fair though, a relational database is still not in place in the
> majority of art collections, as institutions don't want to pour money
> into expensive new cataloguing methods when the ol' index cards are
> still in one piece ;)
> I do note the sweeping generalisation btw!
> Kate
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jack Brubaker [mailto:jack@jackbrubaker.com]
> Sent: Friday, 8 April 2005 3:53 a.m.
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: 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
> >
>
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Received on Thu Apr 7 20:01:59 2005