[alt-photo] Re: Steichen book on color

[Richard Knoppow]

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From: "Christina Anderson" <zphoto at montana.net>
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Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 7:19 AM
Subject: [alt-photo] Steichen book on color


> Dear All,
> Saw at Barnes and Noble a Steichen book on his color
> photography. Very well printed but not huge amounts of
> color work inside. A George Eastman House publication, so
> maybe when I go there next summer I can ask about the book
> as follows: However, a number of his ferro-prussiate/pt/pd
> prints are reproduced which is worth buying the book or at
> least going to B&N and looking through it. There are also
> a couple processes in there that are intriguing: one
> called...was it...Hilchro process (??) and another print
> or two was labeled "unknown color process." Very
> interesting stuff and worth a browse. I would imagine that
> the "unknown color process" might be able to be identified
> by Dusan! Maybe it's a Fresson :)  I say that in jest
> because I have made it through 1994-2000 of the alt list
> archives and TONS of stuff on Fresson with absolutely no
> one coming to any conclusions except Art Chakalis who
> concluded it was a mixture of gum and gelatin and the
> coating machine probably had a lot t
> o do with it.
> Chris
>
> Christina Z. Anderson
> christinaZanderson.com

     If this is
_Steichen in Color: Portraits, Fashion & Experiments_ by
Edward Steichen
    Its available via Amazon and I just bought one.


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Richard Knoppow
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