Category: as written

Perfect Alibis

Posted on Posted in as written, babl, Carp Fishing, M&Ms, morning wood, Prints, the fora

Who do you envy? I can’t show you my work on the web because it is so fantastic ; simultaneously Making judgment of photographs I’ve only seen on the web. cake eat 2

Do they show or do they tell. Their perfect alibis for doing so much talking without any pictures is because only the print matters. That is the answer you are to see. See? Only see? It is so present, so magical, you must stand in awe before it. find a gallery to buy from; hunt but you will not find. The alibi set is so exclusive they have no gallery representation. The gallery wasn’t good enough.

finding gods to follow: repeating their phrases, singing seeking their praises.

Do you begin with answerable questions; do you permit answers other than yours. If you gave up by the 70s, do you have anything useful to say in your seventies?

you can buy the print, but only in person.

I have no prints for sale. (catch 22)

Like the old: we could have ham and eggs if we had ham and we had eggs.

he has to defend his commitment. maybe explain his stumble — potential in youth isn’t enough. knowing the weston’s isn’t enough. knowing isn’t enough.

Of course alternatives are okay, if they are “well printed” — and, anything other than silver-gelatin can’t be well printed. Unless it was sanctified in some way — like from my book publisher.

[am in drafting-mode of a Stieglitz post ]

Finding Film Data

Posted on Posted in as written, babl, da net, minimum daily requirement

We are in times of out dated film — film from unknown storage — film without datasheets. So, to the netfora with a question; like the camera counter of last century, except, these people are retired accountants, roofers, support staffers. Few of them worked as photographers; fewer still kept their old notebooks, those collections of datasheets. Firms like Kodak produced massive stacks of data in the form of how-to guides, along with instructional books — not even mentioning the many datasheets inserted into countless boxes of film/paper.

So, to the Loud Forums with a question:

Kodak Copy Film

The answer is quick, intended to assist, but does it? How much help? Go somewhere else; look in a booklet you don’t have. Oh, and the obscure developers are wrong, but not really, they’re just flailing answers. The answer is online; in two archive books. And now here:

Kodak 4125 Copy Fillm

The exotic developer is HC-110 (Dil E). This film was used indoors, I used it at tungsten settings, EI:12. It was also used as a lab film, in darkroom using enlarger light. Read the guidance about exposure and control of highlights. That is why it could be used in a masking system, and in duplicate negative making, although, I used dupe negative film for that: made it a one-step process.

So, I could pass this info on to the Loud Forumists; why don’t I? I don’t have a login. They are boring people trapped and trapping others, like some vast herd stuck in bogs.

Dark Mirrors —

Posted on Posted in as written, book shelf, Criticism, on photographers

Dark Mirrors assembles sixteen essays by photographer and critic Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa focusing on contemporary fine art photographic and video practices that are principally, though not exclusively, rooted in the United States, written between 2015 and 2021. Wolukau-Wanambwa analyses the image’s relationship to the urgent and complex questions that define our era, through the lens of artistic practices and works which insightfully engage with the ongoing contemporaneity of disparate histories and the ever-changing status of the visual in social life. — publisher

Deana Lawson, —241
Dana Lixenberg, — 139
Paul Pfeiffer, — 213
Arthur Jafa, —79
Katy Grannan, and — 117
Robert Bergman — 131
Ron Jude — 159
Rosalind Solomon — 147
Charlotte Cotton — 47
Joel W. Fisher — 63
Rabih Mroue —87
Daniel Shea — 107
Kristine Potter — 201
Mark Ruwedel — 187
Jason Koxvold — 171

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa (B. 1980–):

RISD: https://www.risd.edu/academics/photography/faculty/stanley-wolukau-wanambwa

Aperture: https://aperture.org/author/stanley-wolukau-wanambwa/

Light Work: https://www.lightwork.org/archive/stanley-wolukau-wanambwa/

Books by:

and

conversation: Dark Mirrors, reading.