marcintworos.art.pl | archival durability, limited edition, silver-gelatin prints black and white photography

archival durability, limited edition, black and white photography

darkroom hand-made collector's silver-gelatin prints

• every work is hand-made printed, washed, dried and signed by me personally, with graphite pencil of hardness F, according to the following specimen:

1. author's full name.

2. title of work and short description.

3. date of negative origin.

4. date of positive origin.

5. execution technique - technology used - (enlargement) blow-up on silver gelatin print FB photographic paper.

6. category - made by the author from the original negative - modern print.

7. number of enlargement/volume of cage.

8. owner's full name - normally it is the full name of ordering party, optionally - any other name, according to a specific request from the ordering party.

9. quality certificate of both the obverse and reverse side (list of faults or damages, if any), as a standard for signing collector's prints, all works offered on http://marcintworos.art.pl and http://marcintworos.com sites are normally „no damages” prints.

10. dimensions - entire size and image size, in centimeters.

• all works are in conformity with the full ZPAF specification for the collector's prints which is available here (polish language only).

• images are embedded in the passe-partout without any glue, using instead acid-free photographic corners or tapes.

• basic available sizes are: 24x36cm and 36x54cm (image size). I allow for the possibility of producing the larger-sized enlargment.

• limited edition of each size is 15 items, when the edition is exhausted works are available on collector's market only.

• I dry enlargments in the way giving matte surface which I consider most aesthetic and elegant. there is a possibility for specific arrangements on the style of the picture frame.

• I usually send the works the same day I record the payment or the next workday, an individual technical specification of the materials may prolong the time of fulfillment the order, similarly in case when the enlargement of the chosen photo is not available in demanded size at the moment - the process of preparing the reagents, printing, drying and framing the enlargement and safety packing can take up to 9 days (dependant on the image dimensions).

• all works are under the image quality guarantee for at least 100 years. I always use the highest quality, fresh reagents and I always carry out the test for removal the fixer in full from the materials.

• before sending the work it is packed and protected in order to be delivered untouched to the recipient. however, if it would come damaged, please send it back to me and I will send you another one. there is also a possibility for arrangement of personal receipt.

• if you are interested in becoming a purchaser of the print, there is the price list of the collector's enlargments below:

Limited edition silver - gelatin prints price list:

passe-partout dimensions:*print dimensions:1 - 5**5 - 10**10 - 15**

48.0 x 60.0 cm24.0 x 36.0 cm210€270€310€

70.0 x 88.0 cm36.0 x 54.0 cm340€380€440€

* standard acid free cardboard 1100g/m2 color black. ** number of edition, the price does not include any dispatch costs.

Professional collectors, archives and museums,

for their collections, accept blow-ups done exclusively on the baryte based paper. Administrators and organizers of exhibitions have usually the same restrictive approach. After all, the fine arts need for a noble form, beside the substance.

Photosensitive papers with the baryte background

are classical, reliable papers for photo prints. Unlike the contemporary positive prints materials which are based on plastic and are convenient for easy and quick processing, the silver-gelatin papers are based on baryte, the natural, mineral, chemical compound, precisely the barium sulfate. Thanks to the baryte all the bright parts of a picture are more excellent. What more, the baryte makes photo prints themselves more resistant to various external factors. A baryte picture - when fixed properly - reaches so called „archival durability” over 100 years!

The baryte photo prints processing

- compared to the common one - is much more demanding. Nevertheless, such prints have the unequalled white, excellent texture and significantly better replication of details thanks to the paper's high resolution. Furthermore, as the process of obtaining a positive print is rather a long lasting piece of work, the result is recognized as a handicraft, with a charm of „hand-made article”. That is appreciated by most of connoisseurs in times of overproduction of pictures.

Whoever had a contact with professional blow-ups

done on the baryte background, noticed certainly that they had an exceptional character, quite different from synthetic copies of mass production. Taking delight in baryte photos is an evidence of the owner's refined taste.

When a copy is made on the noble baryte paper,

with aesthetic setting, one can relish the visual presentation of the photo to the full possible extent.

Limited edition silver - gelatin prints price list:

passe-partout dimensions:*print dimensions:1 - 5**5 - 10**10 - 15**

48.0 x 60.0 cm24.0 x 36.0 cm210€270€310€

70.0 x 88.0 cm36.0 x 54.0 cm340€380€440€

* standard acid free cardboard 1100g/m2 color black. ** number of edition, the price does not include any dispatch costs.