Re: Colored Dags?
Hi, It seems that the Smithsonian Collection owns about 60 original Hillotypes. Other interesting information is given in: http://americanart.si.edu/collections/exhibits/helios/secrets/darkchamber-no frame.html?/collections/exhibits/helios/secrets/text_hillotype3.html Hill's treatise is described at: http://www.cahanbooks.com/cgi-bin/cahan/16685.html Have a nice day, Roger -- Roger Kockaerts Permadocument - pH7 Rue des Balkans, 7 B-1180 Brussels Tel.:32-2-347 66 76 Fax: 32-2-344 43 04 TVA: BE 0438 246 889 web page: <http://www.permadocument.be> > De : Bill William <iodideshi@yahoo.co.jp> > Répondre à : alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca > Date : Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:51:34 +0900 (JST) > À : alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca > Objet : Re: Colored Dags? > > Dear etienne > > Thank you very much for that clarification. > > Having seen more than 100 Lippmann color photographs > which also utilise interference generated colors, I was > quite certain of the additional facts you now mention in > your current post. It is not surprising that one might > have trouble reproducing and or viewing such colors. > > Now, to see some of these images, either originals, or > somebody's recreation.... > > Does anyone know who holds these? > > Ray > > ---------------------------------- > etienne wrote: > >> Some researchers in the later 20th century did, in >> fact, succeed in making "color-ish" Daguerrotypes. > >> "I think the sensitive plate was prepared using very >> close to standard Dag practice, but development was > > not chemical, perhaps Becquerel, and there was >> something very fragile or fugitive about the image - >> perhaps, as has been said by others on this thread, >> that fixing destroyed the colors. >> >> In any event, the color mechanism was found to be >> interference -- > > -------------------------------------- > Start Yahoo! Auction now! Check out the cool campaign > http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/auction/ > >
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