Category: webionaire

the old webionaire posts. also, new ones that would have been home there

any bus can

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… only take you so far…

how do i learn?

did gursky make it further than bernd?

non-nutritional meaning of food

finish not just start

not only great starters

“a fortune many times; confidence only once”

The Cinematic
Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art

In 2006 London’s famous Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press formed an editorial alliance to produce a new series of books. Documents of Contemporary Art combines several features that do not often coincide in publishing:  affordable paperback prices, good design, and impeccable editorial content. Each volume in the series is a definitive anthology on a particular theme, practice, or concern that is of central significance to contemporary visual culture. The artists and writers included in these books, like the guest editors who conceive them, represent the diversity of perspectives, generations, and voices defining art today.

Series editor: Iwona Blazwick

Kosar (4) “The tanning theory has never succeeded in explaining the most remarkable feature [of dichromated colloids]: that colloids containing only very minute amounts of dichromates can be completely hardened, providing that the exposure is sufficiently long.

Enlargers: darkroom notes

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A box of old guides serves more information than a web of 20 thousand posts.

Defects, negative and print errors. These are from 1950s darkroom brochures that the emulsion makers provided.

Not much has changed… just who is making the mistake.

About enlargers and an overview of what making prints would have been like. Defender became Dupont, one of my first film/paper experiences. Remains my most missed photo company.

In the “blue” above, see the callout of an enlarger. That is a condenser enlarger.

In this image is shown a diffusion enlarger. I’ve marked the two sections which, if made variable, make the diffusion controllable.

In my way of working, I use all three forms of light: Point, Condenser, and Diffused.

Each has advantage, so why limit my range // if you know how, use that knowledge.