Maplethorpe portrait of Doris Saatchie

[EdSawyer]

Baril is what I remember, yes.

[Dave Wooten]

...maybe Patti Smith would know...

[Paul Cunningham]

It has a bit of an infrared look to it.

[Darin Boville]

I believe others are correct in that if was Tom Baril, who printed Mapplethorpe's works who did the diffusion, probably with pantyhose material.

--Darin

[Lou Baleur]

My eyes must be going. I don't see any diffusion at all, blacks or whites. It looks sharp to me. Can someone point out a feature which shows the diffusion of blacks to help me see what everybody else sees?

[Dave Wooten]

Lou, you are seeing what i felt i saw. loks infared or strongly filtered.

[Old-N-Feeble]

My eyes must be going. I don't see any diffusion at all, blacks or whites. It looks sharp to me. Can someone point out a feature which shows the diffusion of blacks to help me see what everybody else sees?

The dark areas are bleeding into the white areas.

[Old-N-Feeble]

Lou, you are seeing what i felt i saw. loks infared or strongly filtered.

It's definitely not IR but perhaps a deep red filter was used. The diffusion was definitely done during the enlarging process.

[Darin Boville]

They (Robert and Tom) used the diffusion technique *a lot*...I thought it looked gross on most of it. The addition of the high key whites helps a little...

--Darin

[Ari]

They (Robert and Tom) used the diffusion technique *a lot*...I thought it looked gross on most of it. The addition of the high key whites helps a little...

--Darin

Hey, it was the 80s.