Eliot Porter

[gth]

I found this video on you tube which shows the actual Eliot Porter dye transfer print process from making separations, masks, matrices, mixing dyes and final printing.

In his original lab!!

http://youtu.be/qiRy0hszVRk

I wish there was some safe space to keep these kind of documents, who knows how long on youtube??

Maybe there should be a separate thread for documents and links to advance printing processes on LFF.
I'd be all for more LFF emphasis on printing, classical AND advanced inkjet, in general.

Anyway enjoy the video, I guarantee you will be impressed

[Eric Biggerstaff]

Thanks for posting! I am very impressed as well.

[sun of sand]

i'm watching

Porter is one of my favorites
The other day I went into my favorite thrift store looking for more art books and golf clubs and found the 1984? printing of "In Wildness" and right next to it was the original 1962 first edition
The first edition was given to David from his bride Barbara as a gift on their wedding day 1964

I imagine David didn't want to soil the original anymore and so bought the other

The original has reproductions so much better than the later printing that it's not even funny
glossy kromcote paper lithographs

how good your books reproductions are compared to that I don't know
I have a couple other Porter books and they aren't as good

[Drew Wiley]

Strange things happen. A week ago I had a customer I'd never met before named Eliot Porter. I asked him if he was any way related to the famous photographer.
He said no, but that he had met him once, and had actually watched him make a print.

[sun of sand]

oddly enough i was thinking of this sort of thing last night

I bought some darkroom gear from a man named Paul -or perhaps John- Caponigro


In Buffalo. Odd. I didn't ask if any relation

[NancyP]

I think that Porter had a real impact on the 1960s-1970s environmental movement, not as much as Rachel Carson perhaps, but a LOT of people got drawn into reading about conservation by picking up a book with an image of his on the cover. The Sierra Club used his work for publicity a lot.