[alt-photo] Re: gold toning

[Marek Matusz]

Chris,

A few years back I went to a show of large albument prints of Carleton Watkins. These prints were the original turn of the century albumens. You could easily pick  gold toned prints. The colour was well preserved, with no fading and beautiful reddish tone. On the other hand there were some prints that badly faded to brownish yellow. It seems that similar observations can be made from numerous reproductions of albumen prints.

Albumen seems to be very suseptible to fading if not toned, at least on the 100 year time frame. Gold was a standard toner back then. Platinum can also be used for black or grey toning.

I actually naver had good luck with palladium as it frequently leaves a yellow stain that I found impossible to remove.  The stain is a function of paper/size, but as I said, the formulas that I used were not very consistent.

So my vote is toning.

Gold toning is applied before fixing

>From a personal perspective I made very few albumen prints way back when I was printing from in camera negatives, which now I know did not have enough density for this process.

Marek
> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:15:01 -0400
> From: frangst at gmail.com
> To: alt-photo-process-list at lists.altphotolist.org
> Subject: [alt-photo] Re: gold toning
> 
> Is there a color change with albumen as there is with Centennial (or is it
> Kentmere) POP?
> 
> -francis
> 
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Judy Seigel <jseigel at panix.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Chris wrote:
> >
> >
> > 4) Can anyone encourage me that gold toning or other is worthwhile for
> >> Albumen prints? 5) The hair dryer seems to make no difference (no fogging)
> >> w/ the albumen prints.
> >>
> >
> > My tests (practically at the dawn of the ice age) showed no particular
> > benefit from gold toning for the couple of processes I tried it on (that is,
> > over careful toning with other well-tested means) -- except that it's VERY
> > impressive to dealers or clients to say 'gold toned.' However, odds are
> > they're unable to verify the claim, so you can just as well tell them
> > EVERYTHING is gold toned.
> >
> > J.
> >
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