From: Gandolfo (jpgalt@infonie.fr)
Date: 12/29/00-05:38:33 AM Z
I have some troubles to connect with Photohistory list. May be my message
isn't so off topic for Photo Alt.
This book is very interesting for french speaking people.
> I for one am curious about finding literary warrant for its first use in
> English, French, and German languages. I don't have the OED at hand and I
> would suspect that its first French use would be documented in this
> doctoral thesis: François Séguy: LE SENS ET L'ORIGINE DU VOCABULAIRE
> TECHNIQUE EN PHOTOGRAPHIE DANS LES OUVRAGES TECHNIQUES DE LANGUE FRANCAISE
> TRAITANT DE PHOTOGRAPHIE, PUBLIES ENTRE 1840 ET 1922. (Toulouse 2, 1998). I
> have been trying to obtain a microfiche copy of this thesis for the past
> six months unsucessfully. Does anyone on this list have access to it?
>
> Luis Nadeau
> director@photoconservation.com
> Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
> http://www.photoconservation.com/
Dear Luis
I can't help you about the microfiche copy but the thesis of François Seguy
was published one year ago by :
Presses Universitaires du Septentrion
www.septentrion.com
fax number : 0320416690
French price : 405 F (circa 60$)
The book has an entry about "Noir et Blanc" but the explanation it gives
isn't so good. The author takes an example extracted from Davanne book "La
photographie, traité théorique et pratique " (1888). Davanne speaks about BW
subject, in this case an engraving used as a model to make a photographic
copy. Engraving was BW a long time before photography and the example
doesn't work !
>From my personal point of view I think BW doesn't fit with XIX th century
because every process of this era has its own color. BW begins with DOP
silver processes, at the begining of XX th century and it ends with digital
processes
where the term "gray scale" is perhaps well adapted.
Otherwise the the book is excellent and the semantic approach of the author
is uncommon in
the field of photographic history.
Hope this help
Have a great new year
Jean-Paul GANDOLFO
ENS Louis LUMIERE
BP 22
93161 Noisy-le-Grand cedex
FRANCE
e-mail : jpgalt@infonie.fr
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