Small News:

Posted on Posted in overnight notes

Bergger: https://site.picter.com/bergger-analog-photo-prize-2025/jury

Names that triggered me:

  • Fred Goyeau: Darkroom master printer for world reknowned photographers such as Sophie Calle or formerly Sebastiao Salgado
  • Payram: photographer and former Master Darkroom Printer for Koudelka, William Klein, Peter Lindbergh or Henri Cartier-Bresson, he was Fred Goyeau’s teacher

how about an addition to your stock of knowledge; increase your awareness share . Learning from those who re-use to misuse is certain to delay you . vbulletin forums are lousy reference sources, since even the mods aren’t aware of what has been posted; so there is constant churning , so much so that their data store is a trash pile . One instance : concerning kettle books and custom coating of emulsions. Berger has a kettle book. that means a set of formulations and standards for emulsions . they have purchased these from failed corporations such as Fotokemika (Efke)  . They were also an emulsion company on their own, making papers for others .

Guilleminot (R. Guilleminot, Bœspflug et Cie) based in Paris, France was a photographic paper, and plate manufacturer established by Gustave Guilleminot in 1858. The company closed in 1994, but employee Guy Gerard (a chemical engineer for 30 years) went on to start a new company, Bergger

2 pics: Walking Among

Posted on Posted in art school, meaning, on photographers, studio table, Theory

A very short post. A question in as many parts as you take it. Why did I gather these two pictures is a starting one.

Why: ask enough of yourself; always ask more. Two photographers offering distinct values.

What do they share?

[ not my pictures ]

All general knowledge, meaning that which can be used by some other, or be modified by someone to modify themself, is found in the taking X from the box and revealing it in the X from some other box.

Oops, rather page2.. I used to show, using dual projectors, comparisons of Atget and Friedlander — 4 carousels worth. Comparison, juxtapositions frequently expand awareness of why a strain of visual mind morphs.

Rem: anyone who understands Atget should realize how good Lee Friedlander is; how much more skill he has. That’s often the arc of a field.