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Toning

By Elaine O’Neil and Laura Blacklow

Safety

Method Overview

Materials

Tips

Toning the Entire Print

Split Toning

Selective Toning

Tip

Image

3.1  Doug and Mike Starn, Yellow Assumption, 84 × 72 in. (213.36 × 182.88 cm), toner on orthochromatic film, silicon and pipe clamps, 1993.

The twin Starn brothers have been collaborating on artwork for over three decades. In this piece, they first applied Berg Golden Yellow toner to the photographic positive image printed on lith film. They employed clamps and bars to form scaffolding that holds the sheets of film in tension. The clamps force the film panel to bow out in simple arcs formed only by ...

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