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First you put it into the developer
and it takes from one and a half minutes
to two and a half minutes to develop.
Once that is done, while you're timing it
you take it out of the developer, drain the print always
then you put the print in the stop bath.
Stop bath usually about thirty seconds, at the most,
and that stops the developing process.
Then you drain the print,
then you put the print into the fixture.
And usually depending on what type of fixture
you have, it's one minute for me
to two minutes- sometimes you leave the fixture in
depending on how strong it is.
And once it's done fixing, usually you drain the print
then you put it in the holding bath.
Once you've finished your printing
your holding bath usually has this water
filtration system on it, and you wash the prints
for however long. There is a process to where you
can shorten the washing process by washing
the prints slightly, then getting another tray
of hypo-clearing agent and it- you put it in there for
two minutes and it takes the chemicals out of the print.
Then you put the print back into the washing tray
and you wash for another two to three minutes.
So you want to squeegee the print off,
usually I do both sides very lightly.
And then you go to drying rack
and you'll put the print here
and come back the next morning
and hopefully you've done a good job.
There's two types of paper.
There's resin-coated paper and then
there's fiber paper, which the fiber paper is
like kind of stiff and plastic-like
this is resin, this is plastic paper.
That is cotton paper, so much more lustrous this is
than this. This has piles of silver in it.
And this is what real art photographers
print on. Plastic paper, when this is wet
it's like tissue paper, and when you
lift it up and you get a crease in it,
it's ruined.
Al probably did mostly this stuff
because there wasn't a lot of this stuff around
when Al was really out there grinding.
And the more silver in the print,
the better it is.
It's incredibly fragile the way Al did it,
so you know that's when the fine arts stuff
came in with Al.
I'd see him everywhere and he was
always walking around, taking pictures-
he always had his camera with him.
That's like, you know, I went
Guy, I could just never do that.
I mean like, today I've been looking through
the back of a camera for like eight hours
and I'm going I don't even want to see a camera.