Digital BW, The Print

I saw that this morning on CBS. What a project! As a photographer it made me jealous as hell. That was a labor of love for that guy all the way. I knew someone really good printed them because they were really done right. Awesome book binding too that woman did! That has got to be the biggest hand made inkjet book project of its kind I've ever heard of. 

Good work!

j





--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Mark Savoia <mark@...> wrote:
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> So dyes, they had no issues with them because of dark storage? I hope  
> you got a good part of the $500,000-$800,000 cost to make them :)
> 
> Mark
> http://www.stillrivereditions.com
> 
> On Apr 12, 2009, at 5:01 PM, Jon Cone wrote:
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> > http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4937453n
> >
> > The link above is to an 8 minute spot on this morning's CBS Morning  
> > Show about a print project I completed for the Smithsonian's Rare  
> > Book Collection. The photographer is Jonathan Singer. The subjects  
> > are some of the rarest plants and flowers in the world, which have  
> > been recorded in low light with a digital backed Hasselblad.
> >
> > This is of general print interest because the IRIS medium is a  
> > precursor to many of the printers being used by many if not all of  
> > the members of this group. Though the IRIS inkjet technology is  
> > dissimilar to Canon/Epson/HP, it paved the way for those printers  
> > when it was adapted to photo and fine art in the early 1990s.
> >
> > These are IRIS inkjet prints on handmade Japanese papers using a dye  
> > based inkset on my still clunking-along IRIS 3047 printer from 1992.  
> > It is amazing how long this one technology has persisted. The  
> > company stopped making them 10 years ago.
> >
> > Jon Cone
> > IRIS evangelist  ;)
> >
>