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Re: [Digital BW] Bill Brandt "carbon prints" Los Angeles

2005-07-19 by Djon

These are 35X40" according to the LA Times review (Friday July 15). 

Probably not carbon contact prints! 

Brandt's modern, graphic, strong: new renditions of his images require 
techniques that convey his vision strongly and honestly, not with 
pictorialist artifice ("traditional carbon printing")  

That damn gallery BETTER be showing honest carbon inkjets: Brandt, of 
all photographers, would want that! 

...guess I'll call in advance to confirm inkjet (I'd be diverting to 
Los Angeles before returning home from Monterey Peninsula more 
directly to New Mexico). OTOH I've got a lot of film with me, and LA's 
seething with images... :-)

Djon
  
"Brian Ellis" <bellis60@v...> wrote:
> >Brandt's images should be especially >exciting, rather than
> >merely "precious," when seen in grand >scale and with the extra
> >control that's so readily available with >inkjet printing...
> 
> I know nothing about this particular exhibit but based only on the 
quotes 
> you've provided here it doesn't look like these are ink jet prints, 
it looks 
> like they're traditional carbon prints made by coating a tissue with 
> ammonium or potassium dichromate, exposing the tissue, then contact 
printing 
> the tissue onto a gelatin coated transfer paper.

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