Re: Liquid Light and Rice Papers
Stanley Greenberg ()
Fri, 17 January 1997 11:09 AM
At 02:10 AM 1/18/97 +1100, you wrote:
>Stanley Greenberg wrote:
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>> If I remember correctly, some of the last work that Mapplethorpe did was
>> printed on linen, and extremely beautiful.
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>Stan,
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>Hate to disappoint you but, Mapplethorpe did not print that work. The
>platinum palladium prints were made by Sal Lopes. Sal is a master
>photographer and printmaker. He has a unique ability to print
>photographs with the same feeling as the original photographer sal@www.napc.com (on many
>occasions even better). Sal taught me the platinum palladium process as
>well as negative building techniques. The fabric used was a pima cotton
>which I purchased for Sal. Since then I have found an even better
>fabric with about twice the thread count of that pima cotton.
>
>Jeff
Jeff - I'm not disappointed; I never said that Mapplethorpe did the
printing. I know that Sal Lopes printed for him. I am interested in the
fabric you found. What is it?
Stan
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