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Re: Truth Beauty — Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art response to Chris & Judy's posts

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  • From: Jeremy Moore <jeremydmoore@gmail.com>
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The photogravure I have seen of Steichen's Flatiron in a copy of Camera Work is represented very well by that jpg at www.photogravure.com that Mark linked to.

-jeremy-

2009/4/8 ender100 <ender100@aol.com>


Judy—the images in SOME cases are reproduced in the book such that shadow detail is lost.  I think this is the only failing of the book—the images in some cases are not close to being faithfully reproduced.  A bit of dot gain there!  I picked two images reproduced in the book that I was familiar with:

1.  Flatiron—Evening by Steichen, Camera Work no. 14.   http://www.photogravure.com/photogravure_images/medium/CameraWork_14_08.jpg
(by the way, www.photogravure.com is a great site.)
In Truth Beauty, the image is really blocked up in the area below the gentleman with the hat—overall the image looks darker in the book.  
I am going to check another great book, Camera Work—The Complete Photographs and see if it is in there.