Ken Lee
22-Jun-2005, 05:41
The recent Sunday NY Times contained a review of "Irving Penn: Platinum Prints", an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, which runs through October 2, 2005.
The reviewer gives a rather mixed and multi-faceted impression of Mr. Penn's show, and it is too long to reproduce here - even if that were legal. I don't know if the article appears on the Times web site, as I am not a subscriber to that.
While I find many of Mr. Penn's images to be rather depressing, I found this rather interesting:
"Called platinum-palladium... involving fine paper and repeated printings of the negative on a single sheet. (Mr. Penn also figured out how to keep these multiple printings in absolute registration.) The platinum-palladium process yields lustrous, tonally rich prints that exude an aura of technical virtuosity. They are one of a kind, handmade and as close to full-fledged art objects as most photographers get."
Has anyone gotten any good results with multi-pass Pt/Pd prints ? Is this procedure described anywhere ? My impression was that it really doesn't add much - until I read Michael A. Smith's mention of his printing atelier and their quad-tone process.
The reviewer gives a rather mixed and multi-faceted impression of Mr. Penn's show, and it is too long to reproduce here - even if that were legal. I don't know if the article appears on the Times web site, as I am not a subscriber to that.
While I find many of Mr. Penn's images to be rather depressing, I found this rather interesting:
"Called platinum-palladium... involving fine paper and repeated printings of the negative on a single sheet. (Mr. Penn also figured out how to keep these multiple printings in absolute registration.) The platinum-palladium process yields lustrous, tonally rich prints that exude an aura of technical virtuosity. They are one of a kind, handmade and as close to full-fledged art objects as most photographers get."
Has anyone gotten any good results with multi-pass Pt/Pd prints ? Is this procedure described anywhere ? My impression was that it really doesn't add much - until I read Michael A. Smith's mention of his printing atelier and their quad-tone process.