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So what do y'all call your silver prints in a show?

laverdure

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What do you all write beneath your silver prints hanging in a show?

Silver print?
Silver Gelatin Print?
Selenium Toned Gelatin Silver Print?
Archivally Processed Selenium Toned Gelatin Silver Print on Fiber Based Paper?
Photograph?
Nothing?

Why?
 
I'm currently hanging ten and have labeled them thus:

Silver Gelatin Print

Silver Gelatin "lith" print (Sepia toned)

Silver Gelatin "lith" print (Sepia/Gold toned)

I don't mention selenium because most are ignorant of it whereas Sepia is a common term and Gold adds a little "pizzazz"..
 

When I was printing exclusivley on Azo I would call everything a "Silver Chloride Contact Print." I have made a few non-Azo prints in the last year so I just call everything a "Silver Gelatin Contact Print". The reason to label it at all is just so you don't get asked that annoying question, "Is this a drakroom print or digital?"
 
Silver Gelatin Print

Tho I suppose truth-in-labling, we should call them Gelatin Silver prints (more gelatin than silver), but starting out with "silver" seems classier.

I'll sometimes add the toning information if I do something besides selenium toning...eg. Sepia-toned Silver Gelatin Print.

A typical tag reads:

Oak, Roots, Merced River, 2003
Yosemite National Park
Limited Edition Carbon Print, #2 of 5
Vaughn Hutchins (Price)

(I do not edition silver gelatin prints)
 
Silver Gelatin Print

Although I have a show coming up and I am thinking of

"silver gelatin archival non-digital print"
 
I try to limit the non-unique/non-specific data about an individual image on the tag next to it on the wall. Usually the only things that go next to an image are the title, the date, the edition size, and the medium. If it is a silver-based print, it gets "silver gelatin print". Palladium prints get marked Palladium print. Platinum/Palladium get marked Platinum/Palladium (regardless of the ratio of the two in the print). I have a little pricing chart I display with my work that also contains an extended technical description of the work, and I put details there like selenium or sepia toned, fiber-based paper, etc. The less to clutter the viewing experience the better.
 
silver gelatin photograph

I don't mind using the word "print" in talking about photographs and it has historical convention, but it has some connotations to the public that may be bad.

Jon
 
Fuji Crystal Archive, Ilfochrome or Silver Gelatin Print - not that anyone knows what they mean anyway.
 
I understand there is more a need with color materials to describe a print type by manufacturer brand name of materials (in part because the available options are so limited), but the general idea bothers me. Nobody goes around selling "Ilfobrom G3 fiber prints" or "Bergger VCCB glossy resin prints". I don't need to provide free marketing/advertising for the companies whose products I use - they're certainly not paying me to use them.
 
Oh no!! I've been calling them "gelatin-silver prints"!! Did I get it backwards?
Actually, I like "photographs" instead of "prints" too.
 
Hey Blaze... why don't you just call them ink-jets prints.

Just yanking your chain of course.

On the Art show tour I just call them traditional prints or silver prints. At most of the shows I go to I'm the only one still using chemicals to print with.

-Rob
 
Rob Skeoch said:
On the Art show tour I just call them traditional prints or silver prints. At most of the shows I go to I'm the only one still using chemicals to print with.

-Rob
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Sad, isn't it. A couple of weeks ago I was talking to a gallery owner who had no idea what a giclee print is.
 
Fuji Crystal Archive, Silver+ground up cow bones on paper.
I love how inkjets always have the word "archival" on their somewhere.
 
wildbill said:
Fuji Crystal Archive, Silver+ground up cow bones on paper.
I love how inkjets always have the word "archival" on their somewhere.
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Is it possible to be a vegan photographer...I think most inkjet papers even have cow on them.
 
Photographs; inspite of George Bush trying to take away everything that matters.
 
Gelatin Silver Print
Chromogenic Print
Digital Chromogenic Print
Reversal Print (don't do these anymore)
Gum Bichromate Print
Platinum Print
Ink jet print

These terms are used to describe the type of print only no manufacturers are mentioned because who cares? Lighjet, Lambda and Chromira are digital chromogenic prints and I mark them as such. I feel there should be a notation to discern if the c-print is digital or not as most now are digital and I consider them as they are, digital prints.
 
Silver gelatin print...

Inkjet prints I call archival giclée - they are produced using the best materials I can get, with certified permanence - as ever when selling photography, it is VITAL to convince buyers that your pictures represent something which they cannot do for themselves. If no process is specified, most people will assume the cheapest option - laser photocopies!
 
I don't say anything about the material on which the photograph is printed. If my prints sold for tens of thousands of dollars to highly sophisticated buyers I might describe the material and method of printing but my prints generally sell for $100 - $250 and the people buying them don't have a clue as to what terms like "gelatin silver," "platinum," or any other terms mentioned in this thread mean. My exhibits usually include prints made in a darkroom and prints made . . . well, made another way that we don't talk about here. Nobody can tell by looking which is which and the only people who seem to ever ask are other photographers and they never buy anything anyhow. The people buying the prints seem to have the good sense to know they're buying a photograph, not a piece of paper or a chemical process.
 
20 June 2007

I have been using either "B&W Silver Gelatin Print" or "Silver Gelatin Print". I like using photograph instead of print.

Regards,
Darwin
 
"Traditional Hand Made Silver Gelatin Photographs"

I also dislike the word Print.

I may also add that there is "no computer involvment in any stage of the process", just to distinguish me from the rest.

Peter
 
Oh no!! I've been calling them "gelatin-silver prints"!! Did I get it backwards?

Interestingly, Google gives 266,000 hits for "gelatin silver print" and only 103,000 for "silver gelatin print." Yet most of us appear to prefer the latter.
 
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