Originally Posted by
bob carnie
He is indeed a Leica prototype tester.
He has been hanging out at my space and Steve Sherman's darkroom, Lately he is learning everything he can about large format so he can print his next silver show himself.
In the digital world printing ones work in silver is one luxury that is not easily done, and he has in the past exhibited silver gelatin prints that were hand printed on enlarger using LVT negatives from his capture.
We here in Toronto will be introducing late this year and moving forward, real silver enlarged negatives from digital capture for Contact process of all types. We have been beta testing this for over 6 years, and anyone that knows me understands my three step forward two step back to this new venture.
I think this is how Jakob came to bug me about Silver Printing.
I will say this a... Watch him, collect him, he is an extremely dedicated worker and I think he is one of a few workers that exerts tremendous effort on himself learning this craft.
I will not be printing his negatives... He is going to do that himself.. I have some test prints for him to match or succeed which are prints that have hung in Museum Show settings . My role with Jakob is to be his friend and offer advice when I can.
He loves Ilford Warmtone (as do I ) and he has spent hundreds of hours so far, learning split printing methods from Steve and I , as well he has spent exhaustive hours learning how to load, process, evaluate
4 x5 negatives... Right now he is in Pacific Rim and north , I expect him back mid may with a cache of film for him to process and contact.
He did indeed start out in Motion Picture and has a strong background in visual communications.
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