Digital BW, The Print

Paul--Thanks for your report.  I'm sticking with Legion Photo 
Matte for awhile, or at least until Epson Fine Art Smooth is out in 
13X19.  Your Weston print is in the mail.  I only had doubles of 
the Pepper.  I hope you don't mind such an old cliche.

Harvey-- I've got some Butcher's Wax and some Renassaince 
Wax lying around.  I'll try them on my LPM and maybe the paper 
will yellow with style.

I've tried the waxes with my platinum and silver prints and was 
not impressed, but that could have been the photographs' 
problem. 

Frank

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--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., SKID Photography 
<skid@b...> wrote:
> Paul Roark wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > My best estimate is that if Weston had used the best modern 
pigments and
> > LPM, they would probably look better than any enlargements 
he might have
> > made -- even today, with reasonable handling.  (Of course, 
his contact
> > prints would, no doubt, be another story.  Did he do any 
enlargements?)
> >
> 
> Weston, like all artists was full of contradictions.  He said he 
never 'enlarged' or cropped', but he was
> known to take negatives and enlarge sections, and make new 
negatives out of them (cropped).  That way he could
> say that he never cropped....
> 
> Also, some of the 'yellowing' in the old Weston prints is from 
the 'Butcher's Wax' that he coated his prints
> with, for the 'luster'.
> 
> Harvey Ferdschneider
> partner, SKID Photography, NYC
> 
> 
> 
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