Re: Demise of film

I agree. You only have to go into the printmaking department of any decent
art college and you'll see materials being used which are far more exotic
and marginal than most photographic materials, but there are still suppliers
for them. Of course, it may be that in future students who want to print
with traditional photographic processes will find a home in printmaking
rather than photography ... but in my experience in Dundee, where I
graduated about a year ago, the integration of traditional and digital
processes was much further ahead in printmaking anyway, compared with
photography.

Let's face it, most people who contribute to this list are printmakers
anyway, rather than photographers. It's clearly not capturing the image
which turns people on, it's the esoteric guddling around. And nothing wrong
with that, of course.

H.

----- Original Message -----
From: "BOB KISS" <bobkiss@caribsurf.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 3:11 PM
Subject: RE: Demise of film

> DEAR DAN & AL.,
> As I mentioned in an earlier e-mail, while there is a market, there will
be
> a supplier. I cited a number of smaller manufacturers who are moving in
to
> take over from the "Big Boys". Also, there are some manufacturers who are
> now marketing "fine art" silver gelatin paper under their own names
> (Kentmere) when, in the past, they supplied for bigger brand names.
> Silver gelatin ain't dead yet. It will be used by fine art photographers
> and supplied by smaller manufacturers who may, in fact, listen to our
needs
> better because we ARE their market, not just a small portion of their
> market.
> No doom and gloom from this quarter.
> CHEERS!
> BOB
>
> Please check my website: http://www.bobkiss.com/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Burkholder [mailto:fdanb@aol.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 10:51 AM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: Re: Demise of film
>
> I agree with Greg. No doubt we'll see "coating your own bromide
> emulsion" workshops in the near future.
>
> With all the excitement that digital has brought to the medium, there's
> a tendency to overlook the brilliant chemists and physicists who
> delivered such amazing image quality during the "classic" era of
> photography. To me at lease, measuring electricity across a
> photo-receptor seems much simpler than the daunting task of coating
> multiple layers of silver salts on acetate to replicate the colors
> around us.
>
> Just my $0.02
>
> Dan
>
> Greg Schmitz wrote on 8/8/05, 9:18 AM:
>
> > That would be one way, but if nobody's making photographic paper....
For
> > the first 50 years or so after photography was invented workers had to
> > make their own materials. Nothing stopping us from doing the same
thing
> > now. Indeed, and we have 150+ years of research into, among other
> > things,
> > photo sensitive materials to draw from. What's everybody afraid of.
>
>
Received on Mon Aug 8 09:31:36 2005