Re: Jose Ortiz E.
s carl king (sanking@hubcap.clemson.edu)
Sat, 20 Apr 1996 09:20:58 -0400 (EDT)
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> >Jose Ortiz Echague was an outstanding pictorialist, master of the fresson
> >process (earlier in life he also worked with gum, oil and bromoil), born
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I never met Echague but learned a lot about him from an old friend,
Gerardo Vielba. Vielba mentioned, among other things, that Echague always
worked from paper negatives when printing fresson,and that *all* of his
fresson prints with clouds were combination prints (it is hard to find
those clouds at the right place and time in Spain!).
Echague's star has been temporarlily eclipsed in his native Spain. For many
contemporary photo-historians his work is linked to and identified with the
Franco regime and is seen as inconsistent with the values of the
new democratic country.
Sandy King
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