showstudio: Black and White Coat, Susie Bick for Yohji Yamamoto, 1988 This picture was taken in 1987
showstudio: Black and White Coat, Susie Bick for Yohji Yamamoto, 1988 This picture was taken in 1987 at the end of a 5 day shoot for Yohji Yamamoto.The model is Susie Bick. At that time there obviously was no photoshop or any computer assisted retouching, so to achieve the vast range of deep blacks and to keep all the subtle mid greys my printer, Johno Driscoll invented a system of using paper masks. He made them out of prints of the photograph with red darkroom tape applied to the underside of the print and then he would cut out all the bits he wanted the image to appear on. Repeating this entire process for the other areas meant he could change the grade and contrast of the image in a precise and localised area. The prints Johno made were simply exquisite. It was a real challenge to reproduce them and match their beauty when I came to reprinting the images at huge sizes for Daelim. However, combinations of scanning the negatives and the prints as guides and hours of proofing and reproofing meant that we could at last show the images in all their complex beauty of deep inky blacks and soft mist like greys in a new size and to a new audience. - Nick Knight -- source link