Noble Processes, in a Digital Age
New Works in Hand-Crafted Rare Media
Exhibition May 3 – August 19, 2006
Jpohn Stevenson Gallery
338 West 23rd Street
New York City
212.352.0070
www.johnstevenson-gallery.com/gal...tml#
"In the history of photography, this is an unprecedented time. Not just for the recently eye-popping high prices of certain things. But more profoundly, for the sudden obsolescence of silver gelatin printing, eclipsed by digital imaging. All the major manufacturing companies are ceasing production of silver papers, and that will be followed by the disappearance of film. Henceforth, for silver prints the photographer will have to rely on small specialty shops (such as one in England that still makes albumen paper), or else figure out how to make it from scratch, like platinum.
Since all processes in photography are now “alternative processes,” that category no longer has any meaning.
The division now is between hand-made, and machine-made.
Or, thinking of the noble metals, platinum, gold, silver; if we may coin a phrase:
Noble Processes, in a Digital Age..."
New Works in Hand-Crafted Rare Media
Exhibition May 3 – August 19, 2006
Jpohn Stevenson Gallery
338 West 23rd Street
New York City
212.352.0070
www.johnstevenson-gallery.com/gal...tml#
"In the history of photography, this is an unprecedented time. Not just for the recently eye-popping high prices of certain things. But more profoundly, for the sudden obsolescence of silver gelatin printing, eclipsed by digital imaging. All the major manufacturing companies are ceasing production of silver papers, and that will be followed by the disappearance of film. Henceforth, for silver prints the photographer will have to rely on small specialty shops (such as one in England that still makes albumen paper), or else figure out how to make it from scratch, like platinum.
Since all processes in photography are now “alternative processes,” that category no longer has any meaning.
The division now is between hand-made, and machine-made.
Or, thinking of the noble metals, platinum, gold, silver; if we may coin a phrase:
Noble Processes, in a Digital Age..."
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