Category: the Lab

Another Old Process

Posted on Posted in about, olden ways, the Lab

color photography has lost most of its processes. Usually for the same reason — people only need one; the new one.

When I began working, the person I worked for was a chemist who had worked on the Chromotone process, among others. He was an industrial chemist. An odd job in those days. He had become a photographer, in true military fashion, after being drafted and trained in photography… I suppose they could have made hime a cook, in which case I’d have never learned so much about the processes of color photography.

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The Pirate Dance

Posted on Posted in A Symbol Life, pipeline, the Lab, The Negative

Mimesis eventually mimes itself
a copy of a copy — the barber’s walls

Above from an overnight — finding that it mates with a technote. technight : below

making duplicates or copies is trivial — schematically. circa 1980, we in labs had ready available lab films suited to the process flows of this note. I’ve written notes about the how-to using current emulsions — somewhere on webionaire.

above and below. how I know.

[The mode of literary criticism in which Mimesis operates is often referred to among contemporary critics as historicism, since Auerbach largely regarded the way reality was represented in the literature of various periods to be intimately bound up with social and intellectual conventions of the time in which they were written. In this he followed Giambattista Vico.]– wikip