cyanotype, time zero and the Experimental Photography Workbook

Hi all,
Whew, moving back to MT now and starting teaching full time along with a new
class has left me little time to chit chat on the alt list, one of my
favorite pasttimes.

First, I want to mention that my Experimental Photography Workbook (URL to
it and an article from it, below) has been revised this summer (another
reason I have been swamped). I want to plug Malin Fabbri's website, on
which it is mentioned. She has been wonderfully attentive and helpful and
thus if any of you want to purchase the book, I would love to send the
business her way because she deserves it!

As is usual, I get the book to the printer and immediately there appears
another thing to change! If Kodak weren't enough!! I read from the
Harrises that time zero has been reformulated and thus is unmanipulatable???
I just ordered a pack and will see what's up. Have you heated it while
manipulating it? On a hot pad with a piece of glass on top? On the hood of
a car? Under a lamp? How could Polaroid do this??? You can buy the film
thru Freestyle and it is still advertised as manipulatable, though....hmmm.

One last note about cyanotype...I do use it 2A to 1B, my exposures under UV
are usually 6 minutes on a suitable paper and 15 on an unsuitable with
different curves for each, and on the good paper (Arches Platine) I can't
see where I would need more dmax, so I am wondering if the original poster
is using an unsuitable paper and therefore not getting the darkness desired.
On some papers, the cyano is this palish greyblue that is kinda bland, but
on Platine and others it is beautifully rich.
Christina Z. Anderson
http://www.alternativephotography.com/books/ca_experimental_workbook.html
http://www.alternativephotography.com/articles/art054.html
Received on Sat Aug 27 08:49:58 2005