Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Tom Baker 
<tbaker1328@s...> wrote:
> Do you know what kind of machine/process was used?  Are we missing 
something in what we're trying to do today that might have been used
then?  
Also, do you know who did the print?
>  
This print was commisioned in the mid 70's by the G.Ray Hawkins
gallery in 
Los Angeles. There were 50 made in the format I have, another 200 or
so ( i 
have the documentation somewhere-) were made on the same paper, same 
size but with typography announcing the exhibit. Another 200 or so
were made 
same size with typography on a lesser quality paper.
It was produce by the BLACK BOX STUDIO in Chicago,  they are out of 
business now but were really well know for many years and received
numerous  
industry awards for producing short run, high quality artist prints
using the 
Collotype process.
The Collotype process is a destructive process that eventually
destroys itself 
thus limiting the length of the run. It uses photo sensitve gelatins
to create the 
plates ( a different plate for each color).

"Are we missing something in what we're trying to do today that might
have 
been used then?"- this was not something you could really do on your
own 
except on a small scale.

My point was that  AA was already very active in alternative
processes. To speculate whether he would have been or not is not relevent-he 
was.

His most famous concept of the negative being the original score and
the print 
an interpretive performance applies here.