William Eggleston: The Last Dyes

[@briangibson7606]

Watching this and video on G. Richters Last Paintings after a disappointing day in the studio. Good food for the soul . thanks for this

[@jamiegray3245]

We must return to truly investing our interest and our money into these rare forms of technical artistry. I truly value this process. I hope they have apprentices who will take on the task in the future. There's the Frisson process in Paris too which creates wonderful prints. I only hope AI disgusts us in the near future and we return to film, cibachrome, dye transfer, and silver gelatin.

[@johnhigginson5079]

what an absolute treat for find this wonderful video. Thank you.

[@jasongold6751]

Bravo! sadanother method gone! Digital is here. But never equal.. Again Bravo!

[@steven1822]

wonderful. much peace and love from me to you.

[@seoirseosial]

Sublime printing.

[@jcaldrey1039]

outstanding!!!

[@sashabloem]

very good

[@mamumonkan]

momentous !

[@danieletorriglia2736]

As a young photographer (who was born in the wrong era in my opinion) I started investigate the film process and also the print process but I never really see a dye transfer print process and I’m really amazed. Digital for me seems useless nowadays, but I also struggle to find right tools to print, teachers and places to do that kind of things. I really wanna be one of their apprentices.

[@jeffmpvd7689]

I worked at two different photography labs in the Boston area in the late '80s/early '90s that did dye transfer printing. I really wish I had kept a few sample prints for my own collection! The prints were far superior than C-Prints and Cibachromes. I wonder how they match up to modern day inkjet prints printed on the best papers that we have today.

[@real_life2021]

legend

[@MGarelick]

It should be noted that Dye Transfer was a highly proprietary Kodak process. Kodak only published very general information and a few other publications and books contain very basic information, that would not allow one to be successful for making prints for highly demanding commercial clients. If I understand correctly, the Dye Transfer training program at Kodak was run by the Eastman Kodak Marketing Education Center. This would be where Kodak customers and their sponsored affiliates would be trained in using the system. To make high quality separation negatives of chromogenic color transparencies, as Guy states, is not a trivial task and requires knowledge in physics, chemistry, optics, and color science, to make a close match of a transparency with a print.

[@lessismore4470]

Warning: this short video is more about dye-transfer technique than Eggleston's art. But it's great anyway. Eggleston is my absolute favorite as far as American photography is concerned (call it street photography or artistic photography, not so important after all). The more I look at his works, the deeper I go - even after many years. Thanks. And greetings from Poland.

[@davidhunternyc1]

Art only needs to be interesting.

[@Tmrfe0962]

Is it just me, or is there irony in the black clothing worn by color masters?