Some Assembly

some parts of assembly processes seem the same — see one, you’ve seen the other. Gelatin is gelatin. That is the relationship tween dye transfer and pigment transfer.

Ultrastable .. part 2

the clearing of the borders, the transfer relying upon a good bead.. the same as imbibition printing. In dyes though, that bead isn’t water it is the acetic hold bath..

dye transfer.. an old way

These two videos were made 30 years apart — assembly processes don’t change much. The reasons they work mean you will do much of the same type of work.

note: What Shall We Tell…

afterimage, 1984. Mary Warner Marien: What Shall We Tell the Children?

Two among many histories of photography.

  • Helmut and Alison Gernsheim
  • Beaumont and Nancy Newhall
  • Freund: La Photographic en France
  • Taft: Photography and the American Scene
  • Eder: Technical History
  • Potonniee: History of the Discovery of Photography
  • Newhall: Photography – a short critical history. The History of Photography
  • Rosenblum: A World History of Photography
  • Kahmen: Photographie als Kunst (’73)
  • Scharf: Painting and Photography (’68)
  • Keller: The Myth of Art Photography: A Sociological Analysis (’84)
  • Benjamin, Buzin, Arnheim, Kracauer, Barthes, Berger, Sontag, Krauss, Crimp, Jameson