The Airey book

["Elton N. Kaufmann - Cycloid Fathom Group" <cycloid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I certainly don't want to contribute to a debate over Teresa Airey's book
or over her other qualifications.  But I owe the list this comment because
I found and joined the list recently as a direct result of having attended
a Teresa Airey seminar (in Chicago on about August 20 I think, sponsored by
Calumet).

First, her prints were by and large exceptional to view in person.  Many
were hand colored, but some were left as straight B&W from an IR neg (she
also toyed with Ilford's extended red film).  I attended primarily because
I'd had some personally thrilling results from my initial IR shooting, but
some huge disappointments too that I believed were due to my bad handling
of the film and bad guesses about exposure.  I wanted to increase the
former and decrease the latter experiences.  

I was very dissapointed in Teresa's presentation because it didn't meet
many of my own expectations concerning understanding my exposure issues.
Both in her prepared remarks and in her answers to my and others'
questions, I just could not find any consistent description of exposure
versus film type versus filtration versus lighting conditions, and so
forth.  As a physicist myself, I also realized that some of her
explanations violated the laws of nature, but I would not mind that so much
if they led to a reproducible procedures for whatever reason.

  Although I have not seen her book, it sounds from the comments by Rolland
on this list like it has the same inaccuracies as I observed in person.
That said, let me repeat that despite the fact that her information is
unreliable, her prints are definitely worth viewing and she knows how to do
the right stuff herself.

[By the way, I had the thrill of meeting Ansel A. (very briefly) when he
was on  a visit/shoot near my work place a couple years before he passed
and I'm sure we have all read his three volume how-to series.  I've also
taken one of John Sexton's one-day courses.  Both of these photographers
showed they were/are very good at pinpointing the physical/technical  basis
for their art and explaining it.  That does not have to mean that all who
studied with them learned that side (the teaching the how-to side) of
photographic art.]


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