el rio de nuestra señora la reina de los angeles de porciuncula

hi matthew

not sure what an orotone might be,
but these prints are really nice.

i love that strange semihorizontal form on the left side.
40x60, wow!

thanks for sharing!
john

thanks john,

... an orotone (also called goldtone or curt-tone) is a somewhat esoteric method of printing not used very much and mostly in the teens and mostly - and most famously - by curtis (thus the "curt-tone" aka). i know there are still some people that continue to work with them at least in idea, but from what i understand is that he pioneered this method by printing ambrotypes on glass plates and began backing them with gold pigment in banana oil to give his portraits a luminescence he thought they deserved and a warmth only a metal like gold could achieve. (there's also an issue as to whether he used the traditional silver nitrate or actually sensitized the wet plates with gold)

anyway... for these, i've used some more modern materials (thus the "fauxrotone") - i am printing on ortho lith film (it's giving me the blacks i need and want and with so much already going on in the neg, i need the most uniform surface i can get (which i can't with simply coating the glass) and i'm not exactly using "gold pigment with banana oil", but am not that far off either.

it's a fun process that has a great dimensional quality and the large size of the pieces are quite fun playing with -- although it tends to be a bit of gold... $$$$

oh, and that weird form on the left is actually a palm tree that by being mangled by the flooding and excessive amount of overgrowth, continues to grow in a somewhat bizarre direction and in a pygmy sort of way... sometimes los angeles just amazes me how f@#$ed up and weird it can be -- and this is one of the few official "nature preserves" in the city!!!

____MB

Again:totally cool. Love what you're doing here.
Cheers
Victor

Beautiful.
I sink into it !