On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Joachim wrote:
> May I suggest your contacting Ms. Marie-Hamburg, Director of Photography at
> the (NY) Metropolitan Museum of Art? She has taught history of Phtography at
> the NYU Institute of Fine Art where her lectures have been memorably
> superior. If she can't answer your question she will almost certainly know
> who can. Joachim
With all due respect to Hamburg's brilliance and gifts as lecturer, permit
me to suggest that these qualities in photocurators and historians do NOT
seem to translate into a knowledge of *process,* or only in a very limited
way. That is, they may know when wet plate was supplanted by this & that,
and have a litany of hallmarks to diagnose which neg a print was made
from, but still not have a very clear idea of how any print, let alone an
offbeat one was made. (When I got Naomi Rosenblum's History of Photography
& opened to the "alternative," or whatever they called it section, I found
8 mistakes in 2 minutes in 3 pages.)
In any event, the person to answer Jim's question would be Luis Nadeau,
who would almost certainly refer you to his Encyclopedia, tho probably
give a short answer as well, while telling you he was consultant to the NY
Historical Society, et al, from [date] to [date]. In fact someone there
may still be in touch with him. However, his 2-vol. encyclopedia is a good
value and belongs in your library anyway.
If you ask your question on the history of photography list, you'll almost
certainly get an answer also. Meanwhile, Jim, I see you're a true artist,
but consider a spellcheck, or anyway, note, among other points, that
asking about "mapes" may cut down responsiveness anywhere. Sorry.
Judy
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James Romeo [mailto:jromeo@iopener.net]
> > Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 9:03 PM
> > To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
> > Subject: ????? History Alt-pross``
> >
> >
> > Sent this ? before no rep I will try again its not as interesing
> > as the shourd I should have used in the subject eny info out
> > there thanks James Romeo
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > From: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> > To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
> > Subject: Early Alt-Pross-Civil War
> > Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 10:51:43 -0500
> >
> > I work 2 days a week at the New-York Historical Society the
> > oldest musem in the city of NY printing old negs many glass. A
> > curator working on old mapes asked me to look at some military
> > mapes he found in a colliction he was working on. They were
> > military mapes from the civil war. I went though them and he
> > thought and so do I that they were from a photo pross they looked
> > and felt like brown prints Vandykes. He did some reserch at The
> > NY Uiv Fine Arts and found that they were doing some repo like
> > that about that time in Germany.Does enyone know if they could be
> > brown prints. It would be in the early 1860's .Its realy a fun
> > parttime job for a retired photographer. Thanks for eny info,
> > James Romeo
> >
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