update on lumen prints

Hi all,
My student wrote Burchfield and he was very accessible in answering her
questions, and seems a very nice man. More info he shared with her is this:

He says some of the images are enhanced a bit digitally **only** to print
properly for the book, but color was not changed.

The originals are scanned on a high end flatbed scanner and then he makes
edition prints on Fuji Crystal Archive/light jet prints.

He said out of date paper comes out differently than the same paper fresh.
No paper was better than another, as they are all unique. And his fave
paper was made by PAL, long outdated (25 yr) and he has found nothing like
it.

He uses regular Kodak fix without hardener and says all images will bleach
in the fix, but it'll have minimal effect as long as the image is strong to
begin with.

He suggests exposure times of 5 or more hours and he even has done a 94 DAY
one!

My student is having troubles getting anything more than a flat image yet,
and I thought it might be nice to scan it before fixing, as Darryl did, and
do that print digitally, as well as having a fixed original of a different
color.

I have been having students in Experimental Class this week develop a print
fully, stop bath it, and then bring it out into the light (what I call in
the workbook "Painting With Light") and watch it change colors. With that
process, I have observed some incredible deep reds, which, of course,
disappear to dark ambers and such in the fix. However, again, they would
make for good scans and prints digitally. Even the fixed amber color is
intriguing. I only mention this as another chemical variable to dry.
Chris
Received on Thu Sep 15 08:52:12 2005