RE: Hill

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Sandy, If you can that would be great. I'll look it up in my back copies. 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sanking@CLEMSON.EDU [mailto:sanking@CLEMSON.EDU]
> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 9:15 AM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
> Subject: RE: Hill
> 
> There was a long article about Hill´s process in the old Camera
> Art´s
> magazine, back in 1980 or 1981 as I recall. I can find the
> precise
> refernce if you need it but not right now.
> 
> Sandy
> 
> >
> > I would be really interested in the reference which revealed
> Hill's Color
> > Dag process to be a fraud.
> > The Daguerrian Society published a papper in which some
> people claimed to
> > have produced color dags by Hill's process. It included some
> photos which
> > looked fairly conviencing. I have always been skeptical about
> the Hill
> > process because I cannot think of a wqay in which the colors
> could be
> > generated. Also, as I recall, Hill never did give specific
> directions on
> > how to make color dags. One think I might mention is that if
> you over
> > expose
> > a Dag you will get a beautiful bright blue in the highlights
> (see my web
> > page), but there is a physical reason for this.
> >
> > Bob Schramm
> > Check out my web page at:
> >
> >   http://www.SchrammStudio.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>From: Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com>
> >>Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
> >>To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
> >>Subject: Hill
> >>Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:54:22 -0500 (EST)
> >>
> >>
> >>On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, etienne garbaux wrote:
> >>
> >>>...I also spent some time researching the Hill
> >>>"color Daguerrotype" process (later revealed to have been a
> fraud,
> >>>produced
> >>>by hand coloring).
> >>
> >>You speak of Levi Hill? (The name that comes to mind.) More
> years ago
> >> than
> >>I can recall I picked up a book at Harvey Zucker's A
> Photographer's Place
> >>with a title something like "Levi Hill Was Right." A group of
> >> contemporary
> >>photographers DID replicate his effects and even explained
> why others
> >>hadn't been able to and like that. Having no intention myself
> of EVER
> >> doing
> >>anything in daguerreotype, and being in fact quite committed
> to hand
> >>coloring, I didn't buy the book, only skimmed it once over
> lightly. Not
> >>that it, too, couldn't have been a fraud, but it had an air
> of sincerity
> >> &
> >>fact (also of Hill's frustration & heartbreak for loss of his
> triumph).
> >>Harvey might recollect more. He's still at the same address
> on Mercer St.
> >> I
> >>can look it up if need be. but maybe google has something.
> >>
> >>Judy
> >>
> >>
> >>>Actually, most of my time at GEH was spent just admiring the
> works of
> >>> dead
> >>>photographers.
> >>>
> >>>Best regards,
> >>>
> >>>etienne
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
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