Re: acetone

Eric,

I hadn't heard of the relief when I started to make carbons, either (but
then I never saw a carbon print other than mine until I saw Sandy's. I just
saw a little relief in some of my wet prints and decided to go for more.

Of course, relief was not unknown back then -- it is the basis of the
woodbury printing process...hope I got that spelling right. If I understand
the process properly, molten lead was poured over a high relief carbon print
(but I think they left out the carbon!). The resulting plate was then inked
and pressed onto paper to create an image.

Even if I got prints with no relief, carbons can capture a range of light
that silver can not...that is one of the things that excited me about the
process in the first place (before I discovered the relief properties).
Compensating development was never very satisfactory to me. With silver
printing I always photographed under the redwoods on cloudy days -- to get a
controllable contrast range for the silver prints. Carbons opened up a
whole different kind of light for me.

Vaughn
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Received on Fri Dec 22 20:06:14 2006