Re: josef sudek

[Robert Newcomb <newcombr@uga.edu>]

Yes this is carbro,
silver prints pressed in contact with the carbon pigment tissue and  
the silver based image was transmitted "chemically" onto the carbon  
tissue."

carbon prints use a contact film negative exposed via light to the  
carbon tissue.

I also love his work!

Robert


On Apr 7, 2009, at 10:54 PM, Christina Z. Anderson wrote:

> Dear All,
> I just finished researching a delightful book of Josef Sudek's  
> Pigment Prints.  I have always liked his work--a darkish  
> pictorialism with a bent of odd--and when I saw this book I had our  
> university library buy it (it is pretty expensive).
>
> What I thought was a book about gum prints was in fact what I then  
> thought was a book of carbon prints and then I think I have come to  
> believe is really a book of carbro prints, if the author of the  
> article in the book is correct--that Sudek exposed a bromide print,  
> and then put the tissue in contact with it as per the quote below.   
> So I think I am correct in defining this as "carbro" and not some  
> other such process though I am not sure because the process was not  
> named.  I bet someone on the list can say for sure.
>
> ("Pigment prints were exposed onto BW paper and then pressed in  
> contact with the carbon pigment tissue and the silver based image  
> was transmitted "chemically" onto the carbon tissue." P. 15 Barbara  
> Michaels, On Sudek and Music)
>
> I like the fact that Sudek continually photographed the same window,  
> simple subjects, and the light is mostly glorious in the work.  It  
> is a beautiful book if you have lots of extra money (about $40 on  
> abebooks.com).
> Chris
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