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Often old processes die leaving only a few practitioners remaining like soldiers on an abandoned, forgotten island.

amateurs built Ciba; amateurs killed Ciba.

Ilford Imaging Switzerland’s bankruptcy was in December 2013.

The gossip boys ,on the barstools of the internet ,hang out telling tales of the past. Easy for them to miss the changes in currents around that lost island, since they never were there, and they don’t know how to swim.

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Big Name Ciba

would you rather ask a thousand people who don’t know the answer, or 1 person who does?

Asking the rights question of the right person is the only way to a correct answer.

Burkett is a big name in Ciba prints. He is a long time landscape photographer, so should be ready reference for the Formulaic photographers. He is represented in many of the destination galleries. Even a lesser known photographer knows the Ciba answer. And he is a popup exhibitor.

A Last Lab

I doubt they print anymore, but at one time Richard Jackson’s “Hance Lab” was a major ciba lab for exhibition and portfolio work. Richard has moved on, preferring digital prints. So, just as the best Dye Transfer printers moved to digital, at first with regret, later with a smile, even a joyous twinkle.

The (Usual) Places

B&H … they have partial supply (June 2016)

Dr. Damien Moigno DFI

What’s A Poor Boy To Do?

It will die, Ciba — this year (2016) will be the last year of chemical manufacture. The interest in this, like most color processes, is vapor. Dye transfer has come and gone 3 times in the past 15 years because people talk instead of working. They would rather brag, and boast about their exploits. What they really do is get fat on the barstool, talking about their glorious gift.

A kit for home processing costs p30kit

The last Ilford directions (PDFs) are:

As always —

use it or lose it.
when it’s gone, rebuild, or move on.
don’t trust the first answer.
don’t accept conventional wisdom, unless you want the conventional outcome
sometimes, things are talked to death.

dig until you get deep enough to see light

Others writing Ciba’s epitaph: https://association-cibachrome.com/patrimoine/technologie/

the other table in every artspace- food

Cookbooks are aids. Times away from, without leaving the work place. Part of the universal life consists in what you do at gatherings, no matter how small they are.

Imagination never eats alone.

How they differ is what I noticed. “The Photographer’s Cookbook” is the newest. “Beaumont’s Kitchen” the oldest and seems it, as if from a much longer time ago than it is. TPC, while just released, is also from the past. It was collected during the time of the silver rush, the time photography was growing up and beyond photographers. It seems to pledge allegiance to the past, standing in the shadows of the Grand Museum people.

Even though I own them, they are of only passing use or interest. Probably not of any use to the non-photographer. That is in contrast to the third book.

Studio Olafur Eliasson: The Kitchen

richard.L9816 “The Kitchen” is a book that expands cooking in an honest manner, additionally we are provided a possible alternate way of the studio. The creative gathering he hosts is worth reading even if you don’t cook, aren’t vegetarian, and would never consider growing vegetables or cooking for 50.

The differences in these books is great, not just in the printing, but in the purpose. Not just in recipe but in scope of life. The difference in books is as great as the difference in the artistic lives of the contributors — there is an art that is small, a sole proprietor who must have support from a durable entity — the other is free standing, able to be far more inclusive and is. Willingly, it seems.

I wish photography could generate as good a book. A book with clear ideals and uplifting goals.

of the three books, “The Kitchen” is the only book that I would, and have, given as a gift.

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