[LargeFormat] Idiot

[Les Newcomer]

The solution you desire depends entirely on the decade in which you reside.

If you live in the decade before the first world war, then simply use a 
common glass cutter to sever one of the heads leaving a rakish edge.  
Print normally on Solio with gas light. Sandwhich the print between glass 
that will cast a tint.   Then call yourself a dadaist.  Title image "after 
the nude decended the staircase"


If you reside in the Post world war II era, then red opaque is the answer.
   Simply white out the offending part of the image as well as all of the 
background so she levitates in space.  Call yourself an Avedonist.



Should you prefer the late sixties, you could invariably scratch the 
offening emulsion off with a  razor, or melt it off with boiling water.  
Titles should be anything but explanitory.  A perfect example "....In my 
mother's garden"   Let the visualee decide what it all means.


In the post- post-post modern, post millenium era, Then the soution is 
Photoshop.  Scan it in wipe it out. then you can overlay or underlay 
anything you desire.


As to actions to stop the problem.  Why?  It's devine intervention!  It's 
art man! Okay so it won't sell in a pink fit, but at least the specter of 
commericalism hasn't ruined it.

Les


On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 05:01 AM, rstein wrote:

> Dear Friends,
>
>      Have you nothing better to do than read the ramblings of an idiot? 
> And
> make no mistake about it - I am an idiot. I was reminded of this just now
> when I took a rack of 4 x 5 negatives out of the wash tank and pegged them
> up. I have done the old trick of failing to turn the DD slide over and 
> have
> put two images on one sheet.
>
>     The young lady in question did her part very well. Both images show a
> commendable amount of young lady and the poses are quite elegant. The fact
> that they are 90 degrees to each other and overlapping a chest on a 
> backside
> is the problem.
>
>     I must make a sacrifice here. Something must go. Please let me know 
> the
> Kodak formulae for dissolving one of the backsides or one of the heads. We
> can leave the 4 chests there as a sort of artistic statement.
>
>      Alternately, would you please all detail how you prevent this sort of
> deplorable operational foulup in your studios? I have done it about 3 
> times
> so far and the result never has quite the appeal of the single image.
>
>      Uncle Idiot
>
>
>
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