Possibly OT, now...Re: new alt process--gelatin silver

Susan,

Do you know what they mean by "documenting their images?" Does this
refer to the making of a visual record of their image collections or of
ALL their collections? Were they making digital photographs or shooting
film and scanning it to CD?

Something isn't quite right about the statement...if they have been
storing their visual records on write-only CDs, there is NO WAY that the
content would be affected by viruses. As for the wet route, I'm inclined
to say that gelatin silver IS an alternative process...(and in the words
of David Byrne, "and that's alright by me")

I realize that this may represent a topic drift, but this is an area of
professional concern to me, so I have to ask.

Dennis Moser

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Susan Huber wrote:
> Hi Christina, The good sources say
>  National Gallery in Ottawa, Ont. (Canada) has gone away from CD-ROM for
> documenting their images towards going the film route- you know- THE WET
> Route. As they feel the CDs' are not resistant to viruses.
> So there, don' worry- the wet route will not disappear. It is up to most of
> us to keep the rote going.
> Sincerely,
> Susan
> www.susanhuber.com
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@bellsouth.net>
> To: "Alt list" <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 6:42 AM
> Subject: new alt process--gelatin silver
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>>Hello!
>>Man oh man has the list been quiet of late, so I thought I'd share a
>>maddening comment made at a panel.
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>>The panel was in Washington DC at a conference I was at, the third of
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>>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
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>Granted, this was not a photography conference, but I was pretty shocked
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>>I watched myself become a dinosaur.  I figure within my lifetime, gelatin
>>silver will be added as a suitable topic for this alt list.
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>>BTW, the Library of Congress has 100,000 prints in their collection. When
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>>asked the curator if there were any gum prints I could see, she did not
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> know
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>>what I was talking about.  Sigh.
>>Chris
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