lab. 12/18 Fujifilm

What Fujifilm knows. Two interesting patents about color print/ display materials. Also contain light sources used during testing of the new material.

People. Patents. Products. Find the people behind the knowledge and you will learn what the product solves. Meindert Slagt has few patents. This one lists several people with multiple patents. Jun Matsumoto came about in reviewing other patents of the holders. He is a key researcher for Fujifilm. Finding the addresses of each of these researchers locates their research building.

The need to provide a different print material, one designed to solve the problems of prior silver/color printing in being used in a digital /scan printing system.

  • A: “light-sensitive material after digital exposure.”
  • B: “it is obvious, that in digital exposures other problems have to be solved to obtain a very good color photograph.”
  • C: “a high-quality image with higher desnity is requested for the transmission-type light-sensitive material.”
  • D: “if the difference in density is too small, it is difficult to obtain satisfactory image quality in the points such as black depth…” difference too higher, problems such as delay of development in lower layer(s)…
  • E: a snippet describing a single layer (the Fifth) of the display material. This is the Red-Sensitive layer. Notice that there are 5 Cyan couplers indicate, and eleven “color-image stabilizers.” Describing all the chemistry would take months.

>> https://patents.google.com/patent/US20060068338A1/en ” as to technique to prepare a color print, printings by both conventional surface exposure and scanning exposure have been practiced, and color print materials for each exclusive use have been put to practical use. Therefore, at the site of color print preparation, two kinds of color print materials are necessary. In the past there has been a vast amount of developments in order to improve the response to light of silver halide systems in order to obtain the best results upon analogue/surface exposure. ” Inventor Meindert Slagt Akira Kase Peter Franciscus Van Asten Yasuo Iwasa

>> https://patents.google.com/patent/US20040157175A1/en “As a method to expose a light-sensitive material according to digitized image information, an image-forming method in which scanning exposure is carried out using a light source of high light intensity such as a laser or LED, has been rapidly gaining popularity. Resulting from the recent popularization of laser printers and digital prints, the above-said image-forming method has been common. Accordingly, there has been a continual need for a light-sensitive material having characteristics suitable for laser exposure and digital exposure. As print for a display advertisement, higher image density is requested, because a vivid image must be provided from its purpose of use.” Jun Matsumoto Shinichi Nakahira Hidekazu Sakai

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Walead Beshty: RA4 process

Walead Beshty (b. 1976, London, U.K.) Walead Beshty was born in London, United Kingdom in 1976 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He studied at Bard College and received his Masters in Fine Art from Yale University in 2002.

https://www.thomasdanegallery.com/exhibitions/174/works/artworks4495/

“I tend to think of my work in terms of constraints, whether that be context, convention or material, and use their logics to generate the work. I guess that’s because I see life as an improvisation within constraints, and affirmative notions of selfhood, autonomy, freedom, etc., arise through the active negotiation with restriction.” Walead Beshty in Conversation with Hamza Walker on the occasion of Equivalents, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, 2018

Notions:

Objects are given meaning through use, and over time certain uses become naturalized. Through the accumulation of patterns of use, certain conventions become standardized. Painting, for example, has developed a certain set of base conventions (e.g. canvas, rectilinear form, wall as support, portability). These conventions form the starting point for a dialogue, an agreement regarding the nature of the communication that will be taking place. For example, if a painting has a ‘conventional’ relationship to the wall on which it hangs, we would be acting in bad faith if we were to discuss the paint on that wall as part of the work. In art, these conventions designate what is inside and what is outside of the work. The boundary between the work and its surroundings is manifest through its adherence to convention. [from: https://www.actionstakenunderthefictitiousnamewaleadbeshtystudiosinc.com/lesson-notes-for-an-introductory-lecture ]

YT: 2020.

june ’23 auction: Lot 17, Walead Beshty, Six Magnet, Three Color Curl (CMY: Irvine, California, September 6th 2009, Fuji Crystal Archive Type C) (WB06709), 2009, estimated at £15000-20000, sold at £44450