{"id":266,"date":"2008-04-15T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=266"},"modified":"2008-04-15T13:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T13:41:00","slug":"silverprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Silverprint"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a while since I last visited Silverprint <\/strong>in Valentine Place, off Webber St, a few minutes walk from Waterloo Station in south London. With the shift to digital in most aspects of photography, my requirements for photographic materials in general have dropped greatly. I seldom make actual prints, viewing images on screen, supplying work as digital images.<\/p>\n

Even for exhibitions I’ve supplied work digitally. The 24 pictures I sent to Brasilia travelled by e-mail (all 96Mb) and I’ve previously written about my excitement when the prints, made by the best lab in Brazil, in Sao Paulo, were unwrapped for hanging<\/a>. I’ve not actually seen the extremely large print made from my file I sent to Hungary for the touring ‘Europe Of Culture – The Culture Of Urbanity<\/em>‘ show, and even for the two shows across London in Hackney which I had pictures in last year the images were sent as files.<\/p>\n


\nThis picture was in ‘Out and About in Hackney<\/strong> ‘at the Hackney Museum <\/em><\/p>\n

The pictures for the Roof Unit<\/a> show at Space went digitally because we had decided to print using Lightjet, and I have to admit they were very nice prints, although probably I could have done as well on the considerably cheaper Epson R2400 I normally use.<\/p>\n

But most of my older work on photographic paper was made on materials imported by Silverprint <\/em>– and it’s precursor in Muswell Hill, Goldfinger<\/em>, where I benefited from the advice that was available both personally from Peter Goldfield<\/em> and Martin Reed<\/em> and in print in the old Goldfinger craftbook<\/a>. Later came an encyclopaedic Silverprint Ag+ manual and Silverprint magazine<\/em> that became Ag+ magazine.<\/a><\/p>\n

You can read the latest news from Silverprint on their web site <\/a>and one of the more interesting additions to their range is InkAID<\/a>, which enables you to coat almost any surface – including traditional fine art papers, metal, plastic and wood veneers, so they can used to make decent ink jet prints – assuming of course that you can feed them through your printer.<\/p>\n

Also available as a large download<\/a>(10Mb) from the site is an article by a photographer I mentioned recently<\/a>, Angus McBean<\/strong>, written and photographed by him for ‘Homes & Gardens<\/em>‘ magazine in March 1977. This describes the restoration by him of his Elizabethan house, and as might be expected he certainly makes it into something theatrical if not a place I would find comfortable to live in. The photography is of course extremely professional, but frankly rather ordinary, and unless you have a particular interest in period homes your time would be better spent at the rather eccentrically designed Angus McBean<\/a> web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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