Digital BW, The Print

Thanks Tyler,

That is really interesting your guy in Seattle is the only one left. Does he do a lot of high 
profile work these days? I would love to see his studio sometime.

It is strange that Ataraxia left their website up, complete with price list. Odd huh? Well 
from that post at the end here it looks like Adamson is doing Ultrachrome prints of them 
now. That's what he does. That and Iris. 

It's kind of funny to me. Our High Mueum brought David Adamson here for a lecture about 
3 years ago. He had a bunch of Iris prints that he was passing around. The color ones 
looked no better than the Epson 10K prints I was doing then and his Iris monochromes 
looked flat and dull compared to the Lyson Quads I was also doing then ( not first class by 
any standards).  He wouldn't talk about Cone, acted like he didn't exist and said he didn't 
know what Piezography was all about (strange for an industry leader). I asked him and his 
assistant if he was considering using Epson machines now that they were so permanent 
and viable. He said "oh no we will only use Iris and Mimaki" we don't care for the Epsons 
because they are impossible to keep aligned. Now when I look on his website I see a wall 
of 9600's. He's using what we are, though he is extremely wealthy from what I hear, and 
has Mimaki, Rolands, and everything else. He told us he went for years without making 
any profit at all ( that would be fun huh?). Adamson said he got to develop a nice collecton 
though. I actually don't know who does the work over there but they have a nice gallery 
space and lots of toys.

John




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tyler Boley" <tyler@t...> wrote:
> John, last I heard Ataraxia was no longer doing these due to lack of
> materials. To my knowledge Tod Gangler here in Seattle is the only one
> left in the country doing them, and he has to make his own materials.
> I don't know if he printed the Brandt show but I could find out. He
> did print some color for Sturges as well when Ataraxis stopped, but
> they were 9600 UC prints. Tod is an amazing printer. Sturges has since
> taken everything "in house", UC all the way at least for color.
> Tyler
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john dean"
> <deanwork2003@y...> wrote:
> > Someone should email that journalist and find out how they were
> done? I am very curious. 
> > The Brandt estate backed by a big gallery could afford the gelatin
> transfer process. This is 
> > the only place I am aware of that does them. But they don't list
> anything over 20x24. That 
> > certainly doesn't mean they wouln't do special projects and probably
> do. This is the same 
> > company that did the color carbon work for the photographer Jock
> Sturges that were sold 
> > for a lot of cash. I assume that if you could afford it they could
> produce them quite large.   
> > 
> >   http://www.atxstudio.com/pricing_guide.html    
> > 
> > 
> > John