Now I am havinG to rethink the entire exhibit project. I thought she might be able to use a commercial rental darkroom or maybe a facility at a community college (she lives in Phoenix), but apparently things like that don't exist anymore and I would have to buy her an entire 4x5 darkroom setup with processing facility for very large prints, which is extraordinarily expensive.
However, I sold my darkroom several years ago, and I was planning to have my daughter do the printing (she has a degree in photography from USC, loves darkroom work, and wants to do this). I had envisioned doing actual silver gelatin prints on DW fiber-base paper, processed to archival standards for the museum to keep in their collections. The prints are to be fairly large scale, perhaps 28x35 or so, archivally matted and framed. The material will be selected from 4x5 bw negatives I shot for the historic American engineering record now in the collections of the library of congress. I am planning an exhibition of bw photographs at the Oregon historical society.
