jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) (08/09/85)
> There is also a very strange and unrecognizable dark-room manipulated > picture of Kate Bush in the "Lest We Forget: 5 Years Ago" section of the > NME. This makes me think of a good question. Does anybody know how the "SX-70 Effects" (see album cover notes) on the cover of Peter Gabriel's "German Album" are produced? This is the album cover in which half of Gabriel's face appears melted, and which has many images reminiscent of Hieronymous Bosch in the shadows. Also, do you need an SX-70 to do it, or can you just print onto SX-70 film with an enlarger? [NOTE: If you are responding to this question from net.music, please mail to me and I will summarize to net.rec.photo. If you are responding from net.rec.photo, I guess you should just go ahead and post to there, since past experience has shown that such queries only produce 1 or 2 replies, on the average. ALL FOLLOWUPS TO THIS QUESTION WILL GO TO net.rec.photo, so if you are commenting on music, please change the "Newsgroups" line in your reply!] -- Shyy-Anzr: J. Eric Roskos UUCP: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jer US Mail: MS 795; Perkin-Elmer SDC; 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642 "Lbh xabj... jura lbh pybpx gur uhzna enpr jvgu gur fgbcjngpu bs uvfgbel, vg'f n arj erpbeq, rirel gvzr."
alan@sun.uucp (Alan Marr, Sun Graphics) (08/14/85)
It is done by pressing and stroking the print while it is developing. There is a photographer in Pt. Reyes, CA who did a whole series of photos this way. Unfortunately, (or fortunately depending on pt. of view) Polaroid changed the film to develop much faster, thereby reducing the scope of this technique.
ronx@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (08/15/85)
> This makes me think of a good question. Does anybody know how the "SX-70 > Effects" (see album cover notes) on the cover of Peter Gabriel's "German > Album" are produced? This is the album cover in which half of Gabriel's > face appears melted, and which has many images reminiscent of Hieronymous > Bosch in the shadows. Also, do you need an SX-70 to do it, or can you just > print onto SX-70 film with an enlarger? > You cut the SX-70 picture open with a pair of scissors and carefully peel it apart. You can stretch the emulsion all kinds of ways. I remember seing an article on this in Popular Mechanics a long time ago. They were wrapping the emulsion around eggs. -Ron
petrick@lll-crg.ARPA (Jim Petrick) (08/16/85)
>> This makes me think of a good question. Does anybody know how the "SX-70 >> Effects" (see album cover notes) on the cover of Peter Gabriel's "German >> Album" are produced? You can do all sorts of wild things by rubbing the photo with various objects (spoons, forks, pencils . . .) and/or heating it with a lighter or cooling it or . . . [REPLACE THESE DOTS WITH YOUR IMAGINATION]. This has to be done as the picture develops. The only bad thing is that these effects don't work as well on the Time-Zero film they sell now for SX-70's. If you can still find it, the old SX-70 film which took longer to develop was much better for these creative destructions. There are a few books out on this subject, and if anyone's interested to mail me a note about it, I'll look up the titles (it's late and the books belong to a friend of mine so now is not the time). Jim Petrick (petrick@lll-crg.ARPA)