[pure-silver] Re: silver gelatin or gelatin silver?
- From: Tony Wingo <akw@xxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:19:03 -0700
At 9:03 PM -0700 4/10/07, Richard Knoppow wrote:
The terms are strictly the invention of galleries who want to
1, To differentiate the prints from other types (carbon, platinum, gum, etc.)
2, Give them a fancy name (WoW, look at this: its a Silver Gelatin print!).
The little cooperative gallery I belong to had an opening last
Friday. I had labeled my work as "Silver Gelatin" (to distinguish it
from the Cyanotype, Bromoil, Serigraph and Digital work others had
hanging). One guest came up to me and asked me, in all seriousness,
how difficult it was to make a "Silver Gelatin" print. I explained to
him that it was just a big name for conventional photographic paper,
but I don't think he believed me: He still seemed convinced that this
was some esoteric technique.
Another story in the "What is the world coming to" category:
Every summer there is a big juried show around here, that almost
every one participates in. It's pretty competitive; out of 600-800
submissions, only 200 make the cut. In general, the quality of the
work is high and the judging is reasonable (excepting, of course, the
one year they rejected all of my submissions). However, there have
recently been some changes in management, and last year a friend of
mine who does wonderful bromoils (and has taken ribbons for them at
this show in the past), discovered that one of his bromoils had taken
first place in the _digital_ category. He asked the judges about it
and it turns out that they had never heard of Bromoil and furthermore
assumed that anything they didn't recognize must be digital.
--
-tony
San Leandro, CA
http://www.shapesandshadows.com
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