Re: HI List & Archive REQ

Dear Jean Paul

Thanks, This bibliography will accompany me on my fishing trips in the
library.

I wonder if I saw some holography from your school at an IS&T conference
here in Tokyo some years ago, met a woman Belloni (?) who did some quite
interesting work on platinum doping of silver? maybe I am messing up
things here.

My view goes something like digital photography might be doing to
photography what photography did to painting, liberating it from the
image-work tasks in the society, while leaving it to self realisation as
an art form. Following Barthes grammar of pictures, sign, signifier -
signified, moving from the physical to the metaphysical, alt photo or
classical photography (as the Japanese term is) still retain the sign
and is an object, while digital photography lands in the realm of the
simulacra (to drag in Baudrillard :) , which is sort of funny as one of
the main characteristics of photography is reality. And in this, also,
carbon with the possibility of a 3D surface has an analogy to sculpture.

Photography is also the sign of the "modern" era, while still beeing a
form of magic, ("Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic" Arthur C. Clarke) mastering the physical
photography thus becomes mastering the modern world. While digital
photography has broken the chain of light (a photographic print is a
photograph of a negative, what an inkjet print is, is yet to be
determined) and automatised the process of making the picture, taking
away controll from the user while claiming the oposite...

sorry this did get a bit out of hand, too much time alone in the dark :)
and I have to get on with the technology..

anyway Thanks

Halvor

Jean-Paul Gandolfo wrote:
> Dear Halvor
>
> I send you the bibliography related to pigment processes I give to my
> students every year. You could find a lot of english quotes among the
> full text and of course, many french papers. Probably some of them may
> be avaliable in your school library.
> My list of quotes includes some chapters devoted to history of color
> photography, a field which is closely connected with evolution of
> pigment processes.
>
> It's my first post to the new formula of carbon list so I renew my
> presentation. I teach BW silver based photography, alternative processes
> and photographic conservation in Louis Lumiere French National School of
> Photography, located 15 miles east Paris. Two "water based " lab are
> still runing in our school and I hope at least one of them will survive
> to digital switching trend.... Dry labs are the future of photography
> but I am convinced that wet darkroom will remain the most pertinent tool
> to teach the basics of visual education and more for people interested
> in historical and alternatives approaches.
>
> Have a good trip in carbon
>
> Jean-Paul GANDOLFO
> ENS Louis Lumiere
> Marne-la-Vallée
> France
>
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