Re: Fresson = Echague Look.
John,
I remember reading somewhere that in the 1960's there were several
Fressons who were descendants of the inventor of the method. One of them
sold the patent to Ortiz. The others are still active with the process
at the Atelier Fresson. Probably at that time there existed two or more
machines.
Tom Sobota
Madrid, Spain
John Grocott wrote:
Hi All,
Jose Ortiz Echague, undoubtedly, though the galactic
amount of successful prints he made by Fresson methods, has become
almost synonymous with this Direct Carbon process.
Other well known photographers such as Sheila
Metzner had their pictures made by the Fressons. Echague, himself,
worked with the Direct Carbon paper which was sold to him. The Fressons
gave Echague the formulae for the emulsions together with the machine to
mass produce the paper for himself since they discontinued making it
for commercial sales. One wonders how the Fressons continued to make
the paper, as they still do to this very day for their own use, if they
never had another machine or alternative method standing by..............
I am dabbling with plans to make a machine tho' most of my Direct
Carbon coating methods have so far been successfully done, by
hand, without a machine.
Marek seems to be achieving good results, also, without a machine.
Hey Ho. The quest goes on +on + on + on + on.............
John - Photographist - London - UK
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