Re: giclee, silver gelatin/gelatin silver was 3 questions
AFAIK it is "gelatin silver", a term coined in the 1870's. It was gelatin dry plate and then gelatin silver bromide and gelatin silver chloride, one a developing out paper and one a printing out paper, but now we have gelatin silver bromo-chloride and chloro-bromide and we get really mixed up and isn't there iodide in there somewhere? However the case may be, it was gelatin silver from the historical start from my books, because other things were suspended in the gelatin before (carbon, dichromates) and when silver salts began to be suspended in them, that was added as a qualifier (although why didn't they ever say "gelatin carbon" or gelatin dichromate"?). But whenever you say it is a gelatin silver print it sounds pretty silly (maybe less so nowadays the further away we are getting from silver!) but we really can't say BW print anymore can we, because it refers to so many different things. As far as giclee, I think it is a term that has lived its life and sounds stupid, aside from the fact that usually people can't spell it or pronounce it. It did not become mainstream like Kleenex. Chris __________________ Christina Z. Anderson http://christinaZanderson.com/ __________________ __________________ Christina Z. Anderson http://christinaZanderson.com/ __________________
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