Earlier this year I was fortunate to have some of my work reviewed by Rebbeca Senf curator of the Center for Creative Photography, Tuscon and Phoenix Art Museum. Senf a historian and expert of platinum printing passed on to me some amazing quotes compiled for a show earlier this year at the Center. I would like to share one of these quotes with you today from “A Breath of Light, The Contemporary Platinum Print, 1986” words by Harold Simon;
“To a few photographers, the handmade look and sense of preciousness that comes with platinum prints are important in and of themselves. Use of the process embodies an entire Gestalt: going into the field or studio with equipment that is often handcrafted, making decisions that are no longer required for other types of photography, slowly and methodically working a single image along the entire process from concept to print, choosing paper, chemistry, contrast and color, and making each print one at a time. The resulting image is not looked at as a ‘machine-made,’ endlessly reproducible work, but as a unique work of art in much the way a fine drawing is considered.”
Along with this I would also like to leave you with a short video of my paper coating process.