Photo-transformation, June 13, 1974, by Lucas Samaras.
Photo: © Lucas Samaras/Courtesy of The Pace Gallery
New York magazine (my day-into-evening job) has done a beautiful spread about the fine-arts portion of INSTANT (my night job). See the online version here. I’m especially pleased to have featured Marie Cosindas in there, a Polaroid photographer of long standing who is not quite as widely known as the others these days, and ought to be.
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If memory serves, the negative base for Type 55 P/N that Ansel loved so much was supplied by Kodak and was Panatomic-X, the finest-grain emulsion Kodak made, rated at a super-slow 25 ASA; and I think Dr Land’s crew accelerated the speed, and now I’m wondering if I’m nuts and the memory service is lousy.
On his New55 site, Bob Crowley says that Type 55 was built around “a material called SO139 which was similar to Pan-X and produced by Kodak.” He doesn’t say so, but I suspect it was probably coated on a thinner acetate base.
Pan-X was still available when I learned to shoot 35-mm. film as a kid–it had been bumped up to ASA 32 by then. SUPER-fine-grain. You could enlarge as big as your darkroom would allow (which in my case was 8×10, because the entire counter was 30 inches long, and I didn’t have room for bigger trays).