giclee, palladium, gelatin, etc differences?

[jano]

Hi,

While strolling through the Getty one day,
In the very merry month of May,
I came across some prints..
That were not ink-jet but giclee, palladium, or gelatins...
And I wondered what the differences were, hey hey!

🙂

 

[rogue_designer]

all one print? Or several different prints?

Ie. one print was labeled - Giclee-palladium-gelatin?

 

[jano]

Said the wee little jano to the funny man with horns on his head, a monocle in one eye and a camera over the other, "different prints!"

 

[jan normandale]

why not just google .. wee little jano who has no avatar? Here's a starter

http://www.gicleeprint.net/abtGclee.shtm

 

[rogue_designer]

ah - good.

Giclee is a fancy name for inkjet, typically with high quality pigment inks onto stable watercolor paper, etc. Computer files printed.

Gelatin is standard black and white silver paper - so called because the silver halide emulsion is suspended in a gelatin base on the paper. Usually enlarger prints - tho some contact prints are made this way.

Platinum, Palladium, or any combination of these are contact prints - so the print is the same size as the negative. The metals are usually hand coated in a chemical suspension onto the paper, and then exposed under UV lamps (or sunlight) for a good bit, then cleared and fixed. They are very archivally stable, and the oldest of the methods listed. (Think Edward Weston and such).

 

[venchka]

Visit the links for platinum/palladium samples

Visit the links for platinum/palladium samples

Texas Churches

Matthew Magruder

Enjoy!

 

[jano]

I looked beneath a rock, inside a box, pursuing like cancer,
but google didn't give me as concise an answer
as our over-educated friend, rogue designer! 😉

 

[venchka]

Aye
But the old guy
gave you pictures
worth 1,000 words

 

[jano]

Thanks for the pictures
You posted at the same time
As I wrote my rhyme

 

[venchka]

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