Re: Chronology of alt processes

["Richard Vallon Jr." <rvallon@cox.net>]

If you want to go almost directly to the source- the history of  
Photography by
Joseph Maria Eder is a great reference.
IT may even have a chronology in it....
He wrote this in German in the 1920s... so there were still people  
around from the mid 1800s to interview...
and of course all of these people wrote a lot of letters...
There is an English translation of his history- which has the  
development of ALL of the alt processes...
Supposedly he wrote many more books on the hist of Photo- but they  
may not have been translated...
Also - Gernsheim's Hist of Photography... a much easier read than  
Eder- but he just describes and names the processes- Eder gets into  
way more
names, problems, rivalries and details...

On Aug 2, 2007, at 8:45 AM, john@johnbrewerphotography.com wrote:

> Hello list
>
> I'm looking for a timeline/chronology of when various alt processes  
> were invented, when they were popular and when they became out of  
> favour, such as gum, Kallitype, carbon, Bromoil, Pt/Pd etc. I've  
> googled but can only find more general history timelines such as  
> this one http://photo.net/history/timeline. Ideally I'm looking for  
> something like this http://albumen.stanford.edu/id/messier2000.html  
> but with more detail, not necessarily an image as in this case,  
> dates are fine.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
> www.johnbrewerphotography.com (Under construction still)