re:Encyclopedia of Photography

Luis Nadeau (nadeaul@nbnet.nb.ca)
Tue, 20 Jan 1998 01:09:04 -0400

At 6:48 PM +0000 98/01/19, pmurf@concentric.net wrote:
>If you can pick the set up for a few dollars,
>you may find one or two items of use. I
>must agree with Luis's comment. There really
>isn't much there. Although I did find a short
>article on Woodburytypes, Nature printing and
>a history of photographs in books; all by a
>fellow named A. E. Marshall. ( Does anyone know
>who this man is/was ? )

Dunno Marshall, but you can find much better info on Woodburytype, etc., in
shall we say, more current Encyclopedias;-)

> A real find would be the original source for
>this series already mentioned: The Complete
>Photographer. This is a treasure trove of the
>1940's photographic world including articles by
>Edward Weston on portraiture ...

AND much of it reproduced in beautiful gravure... The whole series was also
published as a 9-volume, 3,526 page +Index (a small booklet often missing)
Encyclopedia. Now, that is worth 50 bucks... I wouldn't sell mine for $1K.

Luis Nadeau
NADEAUL@NBNET.NB.CA
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
http://www3.nbnet.nb.ca/nadeaul/