Silver Gelatin Printing is a Walk In The Park Compared to Lithography...

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Fascinating little film by David Lynch made when he visited a lithography press. This is the kind of thing that makes me thing darkroom printing will endure as lithography has.
Finding an enlarger is easier than finding a lithography press!

 

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Beautiful !!!

Thanks for posting
 

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Ah...one of those things I'd love to do "one day" - photolithography.
There's actually a lithography museum not too far from where I live and they have many presses, some of them in working order and being used for demos, education and probably small art runs. Maybe I should have a chat with these people.
 

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pentaxuser said:
Is that the same David Lynch of Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks fame?

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Surely it must be. No blabla, just slow imagery showing the heart of this place and the people who work there.

"Diane, 11:30 am in Paris, France. I am holding in my hand a small camera filming something that's too beautiful for words".
 
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Lithography caught Lynch's imagination and he started making prints. Yes it is Lynch, the film maker. When I was in school, Blue Velvet had not even come out yet, but everyone saw Eraserhead. Seeing that movie as an art student had permanent long lasting effects...to this day I still make B&W films with my Bolex.

 

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I've really liked some of David Lynch's movies.
I've often struggled with making sense of some of David Lynch's movies.
It is intriguing that both of those statements can be true.
 

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I think I posted this in the Lounge at one point, but it's still worth a watch. Some director, that David Lynch.

 

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MattKing said:
I've really liked some of David Lynch's movies.
I've often struggled with making sense of some of David Lynch's movies.
It is intriguing that both of those statements can be true.
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Then we are both intrigued, Matt. Certainly both Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks were deeply disturbing to me in a way I find difficult to describe

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The two versions of Dune - David Lynch's original edit and then the later imposed producer's edit - were a fascinating example of the sometimes complementary and sometimes competing roles of the Director and the editor.
The David Lynch edit was the one I saw when it was in the first run theatres, and while it was a stunning piece of cinema, it verged on the unintelligible - and I was very familiar with the source material.
The latter edit made more sense, but lost some of the impact.
 

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ic-racer said:
Fascinating little film by David Lynch made when he visited a lithography press. This is the kind of thing that makes me thing darkroom printing will endure as lithography has.
Finding an enlarger is easier than finding a lithography press!

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I wished I had a place to put lithography equipment. I saw a perfectly operating Mergenthaler Typesetter get scrapped.

That flatbed press is a man-eater! Watch all your body parts! I've been out of printing 40 years now. The presses I ran are probably Illegal now. Ask an old time pressman about "picking hickies".
 

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I started running a 1250 Multi press then Chief 17 two color, Heidelberg K lines and a Miele 29. Along the way I shot camera, stripped negatives, burned plates, ran cutters and folders.

There's something special about putting ink on paper.

For a while I did the offset printing for jobs that went to letterpress for embossing or hot stamp foil. There were 2 Heidelberg Windmills and a Miele V50.
 

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Lithography is a big deal in this area. Lots of small personal presses catering to limited edition prints and books. There even seems to be a specialty art collective with its own little academy teaching it. Then there are some really high end industrial press operations during incredible work if one can afford their services, with some of the end results selling for a million dollars or more apiece (famous artist clientele like Chuck Close). I've often chatted with them about technique, and even sold them certain needed specialty gear; but I'm personally content with silver gelatin papers.
 

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I hope I can try lithography one day.Though it may be not really useful,it's still a funny tech.
 

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To the OP. If you know what you are doing, lithography is no more of a challenge to create an image. Lithography is more time consuming and the artists needs more of a deft hand, but conceptually lithography and photography are on par with each other. Both systems make images by chemical means. If you don’t understand chemistry then forget about it, that is, with both photography and lithography. I owned two litho presses and 12 stones and an etching press for twenty years. I recently sold all my printmaking equipment and have concentrated on my 8x10 film work. No regrets. But printmaking is cool. In photography one can never get the Smokey blacks of charbonel inks. Hand work of any kind is always a charm to look at. However photography has an exactness that is cold and biting, which I love. The clarity it provides the viewer of the image , does not lead to ambiguity. Generally speaking. Photography is an exclamation mark, where lithography/drawings tends to be question marks. I was heavily influenced by jasper johns in my early years/ art school 30 years ago. The print work of his, in collaboration with ULAE were/ are impressive. And I continue to look to All print , that includes photographs, work as a source of inspiration. Other like landfall press and Gemini were Also creating great stuff in the 60’s -90’s and I guess even today. In some ways, printmaking is superior, but then again, . . . Any image that touches you regardless of what the process is a work of art.
 
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