Book by Bea Nettles "Breaking The Rules"
Book by Bea Nettles "Breaking The Rules"
Brian Ellis
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you do criticize them you'll be
a mile away and you'll have their shoes.
This is awsome...! I'm inspired to the max
Thank you Cyrus for the swift kick in the pants
kind regards
steve
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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Duchamp comes to mind, the way he squished wet prints together to obtain random
effects then drew over them.
Also deChirico, another Surrealistic
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/
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.
sounds similar to what they used to do with polaroid film
( emulsion lift i think it was called ) ..
but different ...
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