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LIQUID EMULSION

Gail Rubini

Like most photographers, I began my photographic work with light-sensitive paper. As a medium to convey an image, paper offers a great many advantages. It is flexible, resistant to aging, and inexpensive. I became interested in replacing the ordinary photographic surface after realizing that the illusion of form and space can be extended by altering the normally flat photographic surface into a three-dimensional one.

This interest led me to the use of Liquid Light, a commercially produced emulsion of photosensitive silver halides and almost transparent gelatin. Although it is virtually the same as the emulsion on ...

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