Digital BW, The Print

antonisphoto wrote:

>  This one is from the whacky and wild (W&W) department:
>
> I made some piezoBW prints on 13x19 EAM to give to a group of friends
> involved with Burning Man (annual art and happening project in the Nevada
> desert). Those of you who know about this freewheeling art fest, can easily
> imagine that this group wouldn't do anything the expected, "normal" way.
>
> So here is what happened: They put these prints up on a wall lit purely by
> black light, and EAM absolutely glowed in the dark!! It looked like it was back
> lit and floating there against the void (the brick wall behind reflected no UV at
> all).  You could technically see all the way to deep shadows in the prints,
> except, of course, it all took on this unreal air.
>
> If anyone doubts the use of optical brighteners in E"A"M, here is proof .
>
> Does reflecting all this UV make a paper more or less archival?  More
> because UV is not absorbed, or less because the brightners will kill the paper
> in due time.
> Too bad EAM is relegated to proofing paper.Without the brighteners it may
> have been a better color match to the piezo inks and unbeatable for the price.
> But now it just acquired a whole new (dark)life!
>
> Antonis

Actually, I think the glowing is a sign of the instability caused by the optical brighteners.  The act of the
'fluorescing' is actually the OBs breaking down and being used up.  :- )

Sorry I wasn't there for the event, would have loved to have seen the glowing prints.


Harvey Ferdschneider
partner, SKID Photography, NYC





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