Re: china and alt process

When's the next trip?

Steve Shapiro
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From: "Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@montana.net>
To: "Alt, List" <alt-photo-process-L@usask.ca>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 9:02 PM
Subject: china and alt process

> Wow,
> What a trip--china with Sam Wang at the helm, several of us list members
> along for the ride, all 12 of us photographers, 6 cities, lecturing to 5
> art schools about photography, it was an absolute HOOT!! The poor tour
> guides just could NOT understand photographers; we'd pull up to a temple
> and he/she would start the history lecture and by the time the first
> sentence was out, all 12 of us would have disappeared with our cameras to
> photograph that next best thing. Call us ADHD I suppose. My calculation
> is our group must have taken about 24,000 images. Best tour I have ever
> been on with a group.
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> Excellent food and oh so cheap. We lovingly nicknamed it the Eats, Shoots,
> and Runs tour but don't ask why.
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> Anyone on this list live in China or know of a Chinese supplier for photo
> chemistry such as platinum or ammonium dichromate or such? I have heard
> that the government controls precious metals...Can one ship alt chems from
> the US there easily? Students seem well ahead digitally of what I see in
> the states but alt process is almost...nonexistent.
>
> Their undergraduate senior show had a printed CATALOG! Wow. I can't wait
> to show my seniors.
> Chris
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> PS try explaining gum printing and mordancage to Chinese students...when I
> talked about the mordancage chemistry "eating away" the print (we lectured
> with a translator at our side) Sam about died. He had visions of students
> eating chemistry. I quickly switched to "dissolves".
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