Re: Pond-moonrise (was: Re: Steichen image in April's 'Vanity Fair'

[Paul Viapiano <viapiano@pacbell.net>]

Actually, I'm seeing that disclaimer on many of his gum over works at the 
museum site.

Paul




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Katharine Thayer" <kthayer@pacifier.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: Pond-moonrise (was: Re: Steichen image in April's 'Vanity Fair'


> On Mar 18, 2009, at 11:20 AM, Katharine Thayer wrote:
>
> > Hmm, maybe you haven't caught up with the rest of the discussion;   the 
> > print in the Chicago show was from the Met's collection, the  middle 
> > print on the page I posted, the one that looks just brown in  the jpeg. 
> > I doubt the jpeg (from the Met's site) does it justice,  but it's 
> > interesting how little the present reproduction matches  past 
> > descriptions of the print.
> Something interesting to note is the highlighted banner at the top of  the 
> Met's page for this print:  "This information may change as the  result of 
> ongoing research."  When I first saw it, I assumed it was  just a standard 
> banner they have on all their images, but I don't see  it on other pages, 
> so maybe this particular print is undergoing  particular scrutiny just 
> now.  It seems unlikely that the brown tone  is just really poor scanning 
> techniques on their part, so what I fear  is that the pigments he used to 
> stain the print were not permanent  and have faded over time.
>
> I was going to post the URL for the page, but it's three lines long  and I 
> don't know how to do the tiny URL thing.  Anyway, you can get  it by 
> googling Metropolitan Museum Steichen pond moonrise, or some  similar 
> combination of words, if you want to see it as it is on their  site.
>
> I know, here's another Job for Judy!  She thinks she has other things  to 
> do, but we need her to run a few errands.  Up to Greenberg to  assess the 
> coloration in Cigar Man and see what else she can scope  out there with 
> her artist's eye, and then over to the Met to have a  gander at their 
> moonrise print and see if it really has turned brown.
>
> Well, speaking of having other things to do, I have the color  separations 
> for a whole series to print out, and a stack of things to  frame, so  I'd 
> better get started on it.  It's been fun....
> Katharine