Michal Macku "Gellage" Technique-Multiple Emulsion Layers

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Does anybody have ideas or knowledge on how to replicate the look/technique described here?

http://www.michal-macku.cz/tech-a.htm

Maybe multiple emulsion layers with Liquid Light? Ideas and hunches most welcome...

I came across Michal Macku's pictures once before in a magazine and was quite struck by the images, tour the rest of the site and you might agree.

-- Mani Sitaraman (bindumani@pacific.net.sg), February 06, 2001

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All are duly warned of nudity/content... I'm interested in the printing technique.

-- Mani Sitaraman (bindumani@pacific.net.sg), February 06, 2001.

It looks as if he's floated the emulsion off of traditional photographs, maybe by immersing them in hot water, then made a collage on a new sheet of paper out of several separated emulsion layers, with a certain amount of wrinkling as an artifact of the process.

-- David Goldfarb (dgoldfarb@barnard.edu), February 07, 2001.

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