Re: great alt process exhibit in St louis

Keith,

I have been emailing you off line but my emails must not be getting through
your spam filter. Would you give another way to reach you?

Jack

> From: Keith Gerling <Keith@GumPhoto.com>
> Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:58:58 -0700
> To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
> Subject: RE: great alt process exhibit in St louis
>
> It is quite an impressive book. Unfortunately many of my favorite pieces in
> the show are not in the book as the Rennes and St. Louis showings differed
> more than slightly in content. There was a particularly impressive large
> dark gum of a factory spewing smoke at twilight that I don't think made the
> book. A shame, because one doesn't usually think of industrial landscapes
> when one hears the phrase "pictorial photography". As you are looking
> through the book, be sure to check out the dimensions of the works. Some of
> those gum prints were surprisingly HUGE - something not easily conveyed in a
> book.
>
> Two observations concerning this show: 1. The museum was loaning out large
> magnifying glasses for this show, encouraging the users to get really close
> and intimate with the works. I thought that was nice. 2. The first time I
> attended I spent some time eavesdropping on the conversation that a museum
> official was having with a couple of his friends. Apparently he has
> something to do with hanging the show, because he discussed at length some
> of the hassles he had encountered in obtaining works from European sources.
> His fascinated guests were surprised to learn that people actually still
> made gum prints but as he explained, it isn't easy, because it is hard to
> find the "mineral paper" that is required for gum printing. Mineral paper?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christina Z. Anderson [mailto:zphoto@montana.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 6:09 AM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
> Subject: Re: great alt process exhibit in St louis
>
>
> Yes there is and I bought it and it is worth every penny! I would say it is
> the most applicable show catalog to this list I have seen in years.
> Available on Amazon.com or directly from the museum. It has a great
> biography section in the back, and full color prints, and tops Antiquarian
> Avant-Garde as a must-have alt book. It comes as close to being at the
> exhibit as you can be, even to the point of seeing paper texture in the
> reproductions.
> Chris
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg Schmitz" <gws1@columbia.edu>
> To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 6:21 AM
> Subject: Re: great alt process exhibit in St louis
>
>
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>> Thom,
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>> I don't think I'll get out of Alaska in time to see the show. Did you
>> happen to notice if there was a publication that went along with the
>> exhibit? If there was, is it worth buying?
>>
>> Thanks -greg
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Thom Mitchell wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all, not sure if this is well known or not but , I was in St louis
>>> for business and played a little hooky by going to the Art Museum. There
>>> is an exhibit is titled: Impressionist Camera: Pictorial Photography in
>>> Europe, 1888-1918. There are really wonderful prints and autochromes, not
>>> to mention carbons, gums, platinums, Fressons, gravures and even a silver
>>> gelatin.
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Received on Thu Apr 27 09:59:01 2006