Kate's new address

Just to let people know - I've unsubscribed and then resubscribed with a
different email as I have had to shut down my old address due to someone
hijacking my account and using it to cloak spamming and virus spreading.
Apparently people can do this - make your address look as if it is
sending out spam when it is actually not you at all. Anyhow the easiest
way I could think of to stop it was to just close down that mailbox and
open another one under an alias.

Cheers
Kate

-----Original Message-----
From: Hamish Stewart [mailto:hamish.stewart@gumphoto.demon.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:23 p.m.
To: Alt Photo List
Subject: Re: Kate's new gums :)

Kate,

I also once believed that gum could not resolve fine detail :-). Your
comment on the pictorialists was brought home to me today visiting a
show at the Royal Academy here in London of Monet and American
Impressionists, which broadly links to the height of historical gum
printing in the 1890s and into the early years of the 20th century.
Looking at the brush strokes and surface of some of these paintings
reminds me of some of Steichen's work and some of Demachy.

However more interesting in a way was a large Monet show in Paris a few
years back which including photos of the gardens at Giverny - which were
reminiscent of the water lily paintings - but which came first...?

Being able to chose how to interpret a print-making style is one of the
joys of gum I think..

Hamish Stewart Gum Bichromate Photographer - http://www.gumphoto.co.uk

> From: Kate M <kateb@paradise.net.nz>
> Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 08:25:28 +1200
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: RE: Kate's new gums :)
>
>
> "the final effect incorporates both gum's ability to show sharp detail

> " Funny, when I first started making gumprints I read that gum wasn't

> able to show fine deatil....<belly laugh> those darn pictorialists!!
> The context was of pinhole photography as I recall, and I was advised
> nopt to make pinhole photos with gum as they would be "very fuzzy" due

> to the combined effects of pinhole and gum.
>
> Amazing, the human ability to see one aspect of something and ignore
> the rest to the point where they actually advise others without any
> personal knowledge!
>
> Musing on humanity today...
> Kate
>
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