Wow... thanks very much for sharing! Congratulations to you and your collaborators on the book and show. If the care in design that's reflected in the pdf is any indication, the book will be a jewel.
Wow... thanks very much for sharing! Congratulations to you and your collaborators on the book and show. If the care in design that's reflected in the pdf is any indication, the book will be a jewel.
Congrats Sandy. I only looked at the pictures, but they were food for thought enough.
No plans for an English edition. We were kind of expecting a bi-lingual edition, but that did not happen.
In preparing the introduction each of the editors wrote a small piece on the "why" of the hand made print. My contribution in the book was based on the attached article, which attempts to explain in some small part my personal interest in alternative and historical printing methods. I hope readers will understand that my comments are not a rejection of other methods of photography, only an affirmation of the value of craft.
Sandy
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How about South Carolina drawl... I would accept that.
Nice commentary, Sandy, and well said. But that I could post this reply as a handwritten letter...
Thank you Sandy.
A true gift!
Tin Can
All inspiring work to look at, even without words.
Is that what we're calling non-digital photography? "Handmade"? This isn't meant to be a quip, I'm trying to come up with a word that describes it but "non-digital" is defining it within the terms of digital, and I can't think of anything else. The french call it "Argentique" but what about non-silver based processes? Seriously, what is a quick way to describe non-digital photography?
Handmade for the purpose of the book generally refers to prints made by hand coating, as opposed to machine coating or printing with a machine. This is the focus, not anti-digital. In fact, most of the contributors to the book, including me, make extensive use of digital techniques as a means to the end, which is a an actual print made by some form of hand coating, or hand work, and come primarily from a tradition known as alternative photography. I understand alternative photography to mean an activity outside of the normative, and it now includes many types of historical print making processes that were at one time the norm, such as albumen, carbon, and even pt/pd to some extent. When I began printing with alternative methods in the late 1970s - early 1980s the norm was silver gelatin printing, which at the time was based on factory coated papers. Printing with silver gelatin papers coated at a factory is not considered by most alternative photographers to be a form of hand-crafted printing, nor is printing with an inkjet printer.
Sandy
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