allkimik asked: Hello Sir, you cannot imagine the energy and the momentum that this blog fed me last weeks. I wasn’t so pleased with my experimentations with gum, but after reading your material it was like a fresh start for me. I still do some stuff that I found out on my own, and I print my negatives on plain paper. Here in Romania the acces to materials is very difficult. And here come the question: what paper do you like the most? What papers did you used during the many years of doing this? Thank you a lot
Thanks. Since I started printing gum over ten years ago, the paper I’ve been using (and continue to use) is Rives BFK, white, 250 grams, mould-made, 100% cotton, PH neutral, 22×30. It’s available at New York Central in Manhattan. http://www.nycentralart.com
Tony Gonzalez is an artist currently living in New York City. He received his BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art and his MFA from Yale University. In addition to working as a fine art photographer, Gonzalez has taught photography for 30 years including at The Cooper Union, Pratt Institute and New York University. Since 2002, Gonzalez has been teaching full-time at Queens College, CUNY and is currently a Tenured Professor and Deputy Chair of the Photography & Imaging program. Gonzalez is a contributing author for The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, Second Edition and Third Edition by Christopher James and is featured most recently in the news book Gum Printing, A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice by Christina Z. Anderson and Alternate Processes in Photography by Brian Arnold.
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