Comments on: Irving Penn at the National Gallery of Art

By: Dr. Wagner

Dr. Wagner — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 21:29:15 +0000

Oh yeah. No prob. I totally am the same way. Delete these last couple ts if you want.

By: Wah

Wah — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 23:20:19 +0000

I make a serious effort to avoid talking about work on here, aside from casual references, so we can discuss creative freedom off-blog.

By: Dr. Wagner

Dr. Wagner — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 19:04:02 +0000

Yeah, pretty much. I was interested more in YOUR studio stuff…not the day job. I figure the day job doesn’t allow for much creative freedom. Am I wrong there?

By: Wah

Wah — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 13:42:40 +0000

My studio work, or my day job studio work? Day job is all color all digital. My stuff is all film, some scanned negatives, majority black and white. Darkroom has been a rarity of late, but up until 2004 everything was done in my darkroom.

How much do I play with the process? I use some liquid emulsions, and I used to do some UV processes (cyanotype, van dyke brown, palladium) but I haven’t in several years. I generally print on fiber based paper, and I have my own mixture of chemicals I feel most comfortable with. Does this answer the question?

By: Dr. Wagner

Dr. Wagner — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 14:37:23 +0000

Nice post. Thanks for educating me on a photographer that I had heard of and seen works by, but knew next to nothing about.

Do you do much studio work in color or is it all black and white? Most of the stuff that I can recall has been b&w, save for a few series and even those had a washed out color or monochromic feel.

Do you develop and print any of your stuff digitally or do you do it all in a darkroom? How much do you play with the process?

By: Wah

Wah — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 23:19:37 +0000

theoretically, but I think the Penn stuff is just on loan.

By: msumia

msumia — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 23:15:39 +0000

I’m curious, considering that it is the National Gallery, isn’t the work owned by the gallery really owned by everyone in the United States?