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

[phritz phantom <phritz-phantom@web.de>]

faded or not, i think i can see a slightly blue color in the print from 
the met (the middle one) just above the moon in the sky.

here's the url to the image in the online catalog of the met. tinyurl'd
http://tinyurl.com/dyarrc

phritz

Katharine Thayer schrieb:
> 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