Re: cyanotype, time zero and the Experimental Photography Workbook

Thanks for this info, Jan or David. Ha, maybe I'll just turn the students
loose on it anyway and see if they come up with something.

I remember a couple years back saying that you couldn't get an image
transfer from SX70 film. My student Missy Collins proved me wrong. So
maybe there is something that can be done with heat or chems. Missy used
vinegar if I remember correctly. And heat.

But the sad thing is that the whole mystique of that film was its ability to
squish, so Polaroid is definitely shooting themselves in the foot. I bet
Elizabeth Murray, Kathleen Carr, Lucas Samaras, etc. are s--ting bricks!
Chris

PS On the subject of all the changes that are going on in the photographic
world, I am thrilled to see that Freestyle catalog is taking such an active
stand in carrying over 60 BW papers. It seems they are repackaging Forte
and other major name papers under their own label, unabashedly so, referring
to one paper as the "gold box" from Hungary. What can be more obvious than
that?? So Freestyle is going to get my business and referrals big time.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David & Jan Harris" <david.j.harris2@ntlworld.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: cyanotype, time zero and the Experimental Photography Workbook

> We haven't tried any of the new SX70 film ourselves, but heard it on a
> polaroid group, and then confirmed it on Polaroids own website.See
> http://www.polaroid.com/global/printer_friendly.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524441763684&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=282574488338439&bmUID=1125161301237&bmLocale=en_GB

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@montana.net>
> To: "Alt list" <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 3:49 PM
> Subject: 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 11:09:09 2005