Re: Sally Mann

For those of you interested in the fixer on the negative before development
info here is a letter (I finally found it)......... I received from Nancy
Renner:

To make the photographs, I put my negatives in a water bath for one
minute, pour out the water, then pour used but not exhausted fixer in the
tank (about 1/3 the amount of liquid required). (The Greek pictures were
all 4"x5" negatives developed in a tank, 12 at a time.) I leave the fixer
in only about 10-15 seconds, sometimes shaking the tank, pour out the
fixer, do a few water baths, then develop, stop and fix as normal. The
results are very uneven, sometimes I totally lose a negative. It helps if
your negs are greatly overexposed by 3 stops or so, because the fixer
really eats up the silver. Also the strength of the fixer makes a big
difference. You just have to play around with it.
Received on Mon Oct 29 11:16:11 2001