Re: Sudek show

Luis Nadeau (nadeaul@darwin.nbnet.nb.ca)
Sun, 24 Mar 1996 23:15:50 +0300

>In-Reply-To: <199603220041.AA25861@mucket.vast.unsw.edu.au>
>
>Bill Patterson posted:
><< The exception is "Still Life with Bread
>and Glass" (his lunch, from my reading) that is described as a "Varnished
>Silver Bromide Print" with the explanation "This is a extremely rare,
>emulsion
>transfer print. Sudek transferred the emulsion from a piece of photographic
>paper to a piece of drawing paper, picking up its texture and color, which
>are visible through the transferred emulsion." >>
>
>I am not at all sure reading this what it could be. Is this a bad
>description of a carbon print?

I don't think so Peter.

To me, it sounds like the old *Transferotype* process, which I see
described in this Encyclopedia before me...