Re: Fortunate Mistake of Sorts - Fogged/Solarized IR!

[Russ Rosener <rrosener@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You wrote:
Very cool!  Some of our best images can be made by our worst mistakes.
Speaking of Man Ray, I think he accidently discovered solarizing by
turning on
the lights during development.
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I don't think Man Ray "discovered" solarization. He may have
re-discovered it, or simply said he did. He called them "Ray-O-Graphs"
after himself. This little caveat also speaks to the tremendous ego Ray
had, so be careful what you believe from artists' autobiographies. The
solarization process was actually discovered by a Frenchman named
Sabbattier around 1870, and you'll often find it listed in photography
textbooks under his name.

Russ Rosener

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