Jessica caught me playing with tiny versions of my big prints tonight. I’m planning the layout of my show in the Redding Corridor Gallery at (https://www.sawtooth.org/) this August. Too many moving parts to arrange the prints on the computer, so I’m pushing these little guys around until they sit well...
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The darkroom where I learned to print
Here’s a photo of me in the darkroom in my childhood home, where I learned to print. Three years ago, my brother-in-law, Kent Miller, showed up for a family gathering with fresh chemistry for the darkroom and a box of paper. I hadn’t been in there for a decade. I thought I was done with...
"The darkroom where I learned to print"Continue readingLaurent Girard, master printer, dropping science like beat poetry
Laurent Girard is a master black and white printer based in NYC. I just discovered his astonishing blog, A Printer’s Life. I’m not going to try to tell you who he’s printed for. The list is too big to comprehend. He writes like beat poetry. It’s frantic. Here’s a taste. “then the developer, i...
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