tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45484958036613775292011-12-01T22:34:50.248-08:00Musings on photography, historic and alternative printing processes, image making and art. There are some entries containing the nudity when discussing photographer's work.Brian Pawlowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10312691781880720263noreply@blogger.comBlogger441100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548495803661377529.post-40544339661246747222009-04-12T23:51:00.000-07:002009-04-12T23:57:20.274-07:00

Because of restrictions on content forcing required boring warning pages (interstitial), I have permanently relocated my blog to Alternative Impressions hosted on Wordpress.com.While not as simple to use as Blogspot, I find the content policies and actions less objectionable. I have put my own warning page up on potential nude content in discussing photography at the front of my blog.So far it's

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I've tried several methods of coating cyanotype and platinum/palladium sensitizers on paper. I primarily rod coat. Starting with a small line of emulsion (say 2ml or a bit less, or 3 single bulb pull dropperfuls) in a line on one end of the paper, I smoothly draw the line with s leading wet edge across the paper. I pick up the rod, skip over the line of sensitizer and push it back.The rod float

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My apologies if I took anyone by surprise. There are some nudes in this blog in images I make or perhaps from a photographer I am referring to. As in my postings on Adelaide Hanscom and John Dugdale. I got flagged for objectionable content.I found the option on searching through the pop up on setting the material to be flagged as containing Adult Content.I've noticed museums increasingly having

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Judy Seigel suggested the best way to get a hold of John Dugdale was by phone and she gave me his numbers, one for his place in West Village Manhattan, one for his place in the country. She observed that being nearly blind, John didn't spend a lot of time reading e-mail.  My interest in cyanotypes started on seeing John's work in print. I was aware of the history of the process, Herschel's

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So, I've recently made some beautifully detailed, smoothly toned cyanotypes using my store of discontinued Crane's Weston Diploma Parchment and Mike Ware's new cyanotype process. I purchased 250 sheets of 11 inch by 14 inch, and 100 sheets of 28 inch by 34 inch in June 2007 from Bostick and Sullivan. The paper is extremely smooth, a warm slightly cream color (that lightens during washing), and it

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I looked in vain for a copy of Edward FitzGerald's translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Kháyyám (Persian: رباعیات عمر خیام) from Dodge Publishing in 1905 with photogravure illustrations by Adelaide Hanscom. Biblio.com, my great source for used books, showed only the later copies with colored (halftone?) illustrations.On the off chance they were misunderstood by the sellers, I ordered two copies

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I've been exploring the new cyanotype process invented by Mike Ware these past few weeks. This is the first of a series of notes.I decided to give the new cyanotype process a try because of some frustrations I had with variations on the classic cyanotype method. The biggest problem being highlight staining, areas of deep blue bleeding into highlights fouling them. Also, emulsion run off while

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I settled on a paper for making cyanotypes using Mike Ware's new cyanotype process, a natural tone Crane's Weston Diploma Parchment. Crane Paper Company stopped manufacturing this paper a year ago. It was considered a worthy successor to the whiter, also discontinued, Crane's Platinotype.I had been struggling unsuccessfully with Arches Platine and Bergger COT 320 and the new cyanotype process.

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Our governor has declared a drought emergency in California. While I know it is childish, it is safe to say that our governor can beat up your governor.As I wandered around downtown in the rain today during this emergency, I decided to grab that picture of Palo Alto Blueprint & Supply Company while I could. I've been hammering away at cyanotypes again the past few days, and I have had success. So

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I recently purchased a Kindle 2. I'm one of those people that iPhone and other gadget makers target. I like to play with toys. It probably explains my deep relationship with my X-Rite 810 densitometer.I have an original Kindle also - a Christmas present from my wife. I was resistant at first, but then started using the Kindle to hold various manuals and PDF documents off the web, instead of

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I met Beth Moon this morning to look over some vintage and modern photogravures I've picked up recently. I brought books The Sonnets from the Portuguese, Taken from Life, and The Artistic Side of Photography. I brought a portfolio of photogravures by Laryew titled Nus: Cent Photographies Originales de Laryew circa 1920, and two separated photogravure leaves from Stieglitz's publication Camera

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I went up to the Antiquarian Book Fair in San Francisco this past weekend. There were many bookstores selling their wares ranging from illuminated manuscripts to 8" x 10" glossies of Bettie Page ($500, signed - thanks, I already have one). I was looking for examples of photogravures in books. I stopped at several booths, and spent about three hours walking around. Pretty much for nought. Too many

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I have been acquisitive of books on photography from the late 1800's and early 1900's for a few reasons. First and foremost is to get original source material on photographic printing processes that were not yet considered historical at the time. Second, I've been looking for images of vintage equipment and advertisements for use in this blog. Third, I've been looking for fine examples of

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Dr. Mike John Ware is an accomplished British photographer and rigorous chemist. An Oxford University doctorate in chemistry, his research focused on molecular spectroscopy. Mike has undertaken fundamental studies in historic photographic processes and preservation of photographs working with The National Museum of Photography, Film and Television and The Victoria & Albert Museum. Mike brings to

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Alternative processes for photography are most often UV light sensitive only. Because UV enlargers do not exist, you need a negative the same size as the final print for contact printing. In the past this has mostly been done with either in camera original negatives (using large format view cameras to produce the negative) or enlarged negatives using copy film. Tillman Crane, an accomplished

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I've been struggling with technical aspects of cyanotype over the past couple weeks. And those struggles go to the root of why I started this discourse. To describe challenges and solutions and approaches for some processes I'm experimenting with.The problems I have encountered so far include highlight staining, unblocking shadow detail, resolving mottling in mid-tones and highlights and

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Mark Nelson sent out a note pointing us at a resource site for the Epson 3800 printer.The Internet is so cool.The page is maintained by Eric Chan - who seems like quite an interesting fellow.

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David Michael Kennedy is an accomplished photographer and palladium printer. His landscape work is moody and immediate. I love his portrait work - and the way he expresses them in his prints. Rangefinder Magazine has an interesting profile on him.But, once again, I digress.He has published some extensive technical notes on palladium printing technique on his website that I stumbled across while

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So, I've been preparing some scans of the various steps of making an image in cyanotype. I'm not the most accomplished print scanner (just setup my Epson V750 scanner which I had bought some time back to scan some 8" x 10" black and white negatives I have). I use a discontinued Imacon (now Hasselblad) 646 film scanner for my 4" x 5" film work which is similar to the current Flextight X1 model.But

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At some point one will ask themselves the question "Should I buy pre-packaged chemicals or buy them in bulk?" This is almost the same as deciding whether to do your shopping at the corner grocery store or at Costco.The difference in price is great when you consider the chemistry needed for cyanotype.I buy a lot of my supplies fro Bostick and Sullivan. They sell a pre-packaged cyanotype kit for

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I went to Brigitte Carnochan's opening of Imagining Then at Gallery 291 in San Francisco tonight. The work struck me very hard and left me in an emotional state that I can't shake.Gitta's hand-painted photographs of figures and still lives are exquisite. This new work is very different. Working from photographs and objects from her parents, Gitta constructed a view and interpretation of her

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I use the Epson 3800 printer to produce my digital negatives. There, I've said it.So, one thing I continually bump into is there's not enough time in the day to do all the things I want to do with my photography. And I try to ask people who are working in similar areas for recommendations on equipment and technique.I have Epson 4800 and 9800 printers, and they are fine printers indeed. I do many

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Bleu, bleu, le monde est bleu.I spent the past couple days wrestling with classic cyanotype. This is somewhat embarrassing, given the supposed ease with which this most basic of processes can be done. Invented by John Herschel (a famous polymath) in 1842, it is simplicity itself. Two chemicals, expose in sun, develop in water, dry. Voilà! Anna Atkins created the first photography book consisting

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I stumbled across a printout of a chapter on cyanotypes from Christopher James's most excellent book, and I had quite forgotten where I had found it. It turns out the cyanotype process is the sample chapter from his book published  on his website.This is quite a find, it is full of valuable information on the process, alternate techniques, and toning approaches.I had forgotten the quote from the

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One of the extreme pleasures of alternative processes is playing with some very fine papers. Compared to a purely digital darkroom, alternative processes afford a very sensual experience.For the past couple days I have been coating (and coating and coating) Arches Platine with cyanotype emulsion. Mark Nelson had said that Christina Z. Anderson (I think) used Arches Platine successfully with

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A very brief note. I saw a reference, I think in Volume 7 of The World Journal of Post-Factory Photography, to a Bromoil Reading Room. I've been scanning the web with various searches to find on-line versions of out-of-print texts on alternative processes. The bromoilists are very organized in getting material on-line.Another place to find some photography is on Archive.org, which has listings

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The Internet is a wonderful place. Really.I am carrying around on my vacation a 1974 reprint by the Visual Studies Workshop of Herbert Denison's A Treatise on Photogravure (in Intaglio by the Talbot-Klič Process). It is available used at a price of $275 (for the reprint) at Amazon.com today, which may put it out of many people's reach.For whatever reason, this book is one of many scanned by

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Let's talk about washing out the Toyobo KM73 photopolymer plate.On Jon Lybrook's recommendation I eventually purchased the Boxcar Press brush. Dianne Longley talks about any flat soft bristle brush being usable for washout. After constructing my own using taped together bristle paint brushes from Home Depot, I decided to buy the Boxcar brush. At 4" x 8", it fits neatly in the palm of my hand. The

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I just finished watching the documentary Strand: Under the Dark Cloth. The commentary went "[Late in life] Paul Strand went to Ghana... where he used a handheld camera for the first time." Yeah, what looks to be Graflex RB single lens reflex. Cataracts waylaid him briefly in his old age but still he printed - trying to direct his wife Hazel in the darkroom (operations restored his vision and he

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I've come down with something and am mostly staying warm and catching up on reading.Jon Lybrook mentioned in passing that Crown Point Press was having a sale, and that he really loved their books. I have to say, if it wasn't for Jon's whole-hearted recommendation I would, as a rule, pass up books whose titles start with Magical Secrets About... I went to the web site and on his recommendation

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Julia Margaret Cameron is a hero of mine. She is an inspiration to follow one's passion no matter when in life you find it, to find supporters for one's endeavors, and to make progress in the pursuit of art through determination and hard work.The Internet is a great resource for photography and opens up many early sources if you know to look for them. One interesting find is the brief unpublished

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While Arentz's work is phenomenal in its focus on Platinum and Palladium Printing, on the other end of the spectrum is a compendium covering many alternative processes. Perhaps the most comprehensive recent text is Christopher James's satisfying The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes.Christopher James seems to be a throwback to the early, heady days of the practioner/technician/instructor

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I spent this evening completing calibration of my polymer photogravure process. Using Mark Nelson's PDN system I generated process correction curves for the Toyobo Printight KM 73 plates, Rives BFK paper and Charbonnel Universal Black.I was trading e-mails with Jon Lybrook over the course of the evening discussing Takach's synchronized pressure system (I love it), aquatint screens, exposure times

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I woke this morning at 6AM to catch up on printing, turned off the clock and slept for another hour. That said, at 7AM I went to my darkroom, trimmed a steel backed Toyobo Printight KM 73 photopolymer plate to size using a sturdy 18" Dahle guillotine paper cutter (using the polymer plate on the bed which retains the flat edge on cut), and printed my PDN calibration tablets and a Stouffer 31 step

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Though someone may comment to tell me I am wrong, it is my feeling that while there are many good texts that describe a variety of alternative photographic printing methods, there are few texts that are comprehensive on one method. Leading the pack in the latter is Dick Arentz's Platinum and Palladium Printing, Second Edition. While the first edition was a very good text, the second edition is

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If there is an exciting time for landscape photography it is sunrise or sunset.It's 5AM and I'm thinking about Alain Briot's dictum to "Focus." It could well apply to me eyes at this moment and my wish for some psychoactive drug like caffeine to make me bigger, stronger, more awake.Here in Death Valley I've once again had the opportunity to wonder "Where are all the people at sunrise?" I see

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"Focus." Alain Briot replied when I asked him what it takes to be a great landscape photographer. In all senses of the word. Alain's work testifies to his intense focus to producing unique and beautiful landscape images.In discussing creativity he remarked, as I've heard others, that it's increasingly hard to find a place that's never been photographed before. The challenge is "seeing a place in

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A common question asked is "Why do alternative processes?" I suspect the answer is very personal to each artist.I'll take one thing off the table immediately - you don't explore alternative processes to simplify and streamline your life to free up time for other activities. I was musing during a workshop with Larry Shapiro that taking on oil printing as a process could easily fill any spare time

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The Toyobo Printight KM 73 plate is a steel backed photopolymer plate. It is used primarily in the letterpress industry for commercial applications.As the catalog on Anderson & Vreeland shows, the KM series comes in a variety of thicknesses, and the plate is harder after processing than other types of plate.The KM 73 plate can reproduce halftone images up to 200-lines/inch according to the

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Forget my last post where I said I would be doing cyanotypes. That's a story for another day.I got distracted doing some initial work at home with photopolymer gravure, or polymer photogravure, or photopolymer etching. This is a process I really want to get my arms around. Let's start with some basics.Photogravure is an intaglio process perfected in part by none other than William Fox Talbot -

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Let's start at the beginning: contact printing frames. The most common piece of equipment you will come across in alternative photographic processes.I'm only half joking about the central role that the contact printing frame plays in alternative processes. The need for this piece of equipment illustrates some fundamental points in common for various popular processes.First, many alternative

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In scrambling around for information on alternative and historic processes I've come across some material in a roundabout way. One extremely useful publication was The World Journal of Post-Factory Photography published by Judy Seigel. In her own inimitable style, Judy sets forth in 9 issues stories of practitioners, methods and how-to's for alternative photographic processes.The issues are

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Beth Moon and I have been running across each other more and more frequently. I met Beth briefly through Mark Nelson when he was working with her on his Precision Digital Negatives system. I was also working with Mark (and still am) and ran by her place to take him out to dinner. Beth makes large digital negatives to contact print in platinum using Mike Ware's method - a process I find

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I had the opportunity to meet Michael Garlington recently in his darkroom in Petaluma, California. I'm glad the directions were good - as there is no cell phone coverage where he lives and works - he's off the beaten track in more ways than one.I am fascinated not only by his work - my favorite being The Fishmonger's Daughter - but by the extraordinary passion and energy he exudes. Watching him

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