Re: Fresson/Artigue

Luis Nadeau (nadeaul@nbnet.nb.ca)
Wed, 07 Jan 1998 20:12:14 -0400

At 11:05 AM -0600 98/01/07, John Barnier wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>For those interested in the Fresson/Artigue discussion, and if you have
>access to back issues of the Photographic Journal, see the May/June 1978
>issue, pp.130-134. According to the newest Photo Historian Supplement of
>the Royal Photographic Society, this will give you "full working
>details". I haven't seen it myself; I can only pass on the reference.
>
>The supplement also mentions working details available in the following:
>BJA,1910,p.5664 quoting from Phot. Kunst, Nov. 1908. p.285 (not checked),
>and the Dictionary of Photography 15 Edn, pp.47-49. These are the
>notations of the RPS supplement, not mine.
========

For those, and many more references and formulas on direct carbon processes
(often improperly referred to as Fresson), see my Encyclopedia and my Gum
Dichromate books. They have nothing to do with the actual Fresson process.
Given enough practice and time however they can all produce pigment images.

Luis Nadeau
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Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
http://www3.nbnet.nb.ca/nadeaul/