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    Re: Manipulated Negatives

    Book by Bea Nettles "Breaking The Rules"
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    a mile away and you'll have their shoes.

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    Re: Manipulated Negatives

    This is awsome...! I'm inspired to the max

    Thank you Cyrus for the swift kick in the pants

    kind regards
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    Starns Twins? Although I think they messed with their prints more than their negs. Are they still relevant? Never liked them anyway.
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    Re: Manipulated Negatives

    Duchamp comes to mind, the way he squished wet prints together to obtain random
    effects then drew over them.

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    Re: Manipulated Negatives

    Also deChirico, another Surrealistic

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    distressed negatives?
    yes - I do it a lot.

    the MASTER (in my book) of distressing negatives is Michal Machu from the Check republic.

    He has a (secret, I think) technique, where he can lift off the emulsion on a negative - put it in another surface, and then the distressing goes on...

    He calls this technique "Gellages"..

    Take a look at his site - and whe you do it, take a look at his carbon prints also...

    He certainly raises the bar a lot (for me).

    http://www.michal-macku.eu/

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    Re: Manipulated Negatives

    Quote Originally Posted by gandolfi View Post
    distressed negatives?
    yes - I do it a lot.

    the MASTER (in my book) of distressing negatives is Michal Machu from the Check republic.

    He has a (secret, I think) technique, where he can lift off the emulsion on a negative - put it in another surface, and then the distressing goes on...

    He calls this technique "Gellages"..

    Take a look at his site - and whe you do it, take a look at his carbon prints also...

    He certainly raises the bar a lot (for me).

    http://www.michal-macku.eu/
    wow emil ... !

    thanks for this link

    spooky and beautiful ..
    i wish i understood czech ...

    john

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    Re: Manipulated Negatives

    Quote Originally Posted by Richard M. Coda View Post
    Starns Twins? Although I think they messed with their prints more than their negs. Are they still relevant? Never liked them anyway.
    Before you write them off, check out Big Bambú, a really cool piece of theirs from this year.



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    Re: Manipulated Negatives

    Quote Originally Posted by gandolfi View Post
    He has a (secret, I think) technique, where he can lift off the emulsion on a negative - put it in another surface, and then the distressing goes on...
    Excellent!

    I think I know how he is lifting the gelatin. I remember reading Bernhard Seuss' book, and he detailed how he did an archival wash by soaking the prints for a long time. Once, he was testing out a new paper, and the gelatin slid right off! He considered this as being a failure, but it looks like Machu found the same thing and decided that it was a success.

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    Re: Manipulated Negatives

    sounds similar to what they used to do with polaroid film
    ( emulsion lift i think it was called ) ..

    but different ...

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