Hubert had an old portret enlarger lens, wide open it was soft like you see in his pictures, at the end of his life he was printing his old negatieves again but this time very sharp
and yes he worked with color pencils on his prints best regards Op 23/02/11 01:04, Eric Nelson schreef:
My guess is a nylon stocking/diffusion material of some kind used under the lens during all or some of the exposure during printing.------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From:* Don Sweet <don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> *To:* pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx *Sent:* Tue, February 22, 2011 2:56:17 PM *Subject:* [pure-silver] Hubert Grooteclaes The Belgian photographer Hubert Grooteclaes was well known a few years ago for pictures like this http://www.hubertgrooteclaes.com/fr/portfolio-10301-0-50-martinique.html many of which you could buy as posters (for example the 1st one in the 5th row of this set, and the 4th one in the 3rd row of the Amerique set).Almost everything I have found about him is written in French unfortunately.Obviously he had a good eye, so to speak. I think he used a "primitive" lens, and he hand coloured some of his prints, but I wonder whether any other technique contributing to the overall moodiness of his work can be identified by any interested list members. Don Sweet =============================================================================================================To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org <//www.freelists.org> and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.
