Woodburytype reproductions of **contemporary** photographs? How
contemporary? Any other details?
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>if they are not rare why do I rarely see them and where can I ?
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>I have got a glorious range of tone from a carbon print; it has the edge on
>platinum, but surely as the woodburytype can be a reproduction process, it
>should be able to reproduce all the tones of both.
As discussed many moons ago on this list, large highlight areas of any size
was always a problem with this process. Carbon and Pt did not have that
problem
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>I thought that the decline of the woodburytype was brought about by the
>arrival
>of the collotype. Did not one need a hydraulic press to make them. I seem to
Collotype and especially photogravure, did compete in terms of quality but
they could not accomodate letterpress text either in one pass. One
exception was Cronenberg's Expresstype process, introduced in 1888. The
continuous tone image was obtained from a collotype image transferred onto
a block, etched and printed type-high.
>remember that there was a print works still making reproductions of this
>kind in
>the Old Kent Road until the demise of the London hydraulic ring main in the
>1960s.
I'd like more details on this and I'm sure Phil and other would too.
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>Would it be naff arrange a meeting of those on the list from time to time ?
There will be one in Paris in May. More about this later.
Luis Nadeau