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Re: PIGMENT PRINTS
Bob,
The term "pigment print" can and has been used to describe a rather large
number of dichromate colloid processes, including carbon transfer, gum
bichromate and other direct carbon processes (Artigue, Fresson, etc.).
However, around the turn of the century the term "pigment print" was
usually used to designate a carbon transfer print made from a tissue that
used a colorant matter other than carbon black. I believe that the use of
the word with reference to Steichen means simply a carbon print.
Sandy King
>DEAR LIST,
> I have recently exhumed Steichen's A LIFE IN PHOTOGRAPHY from my storage
>locker in NYC and found references to "pigment prints". I cannot find
>anything in the indices of either Spirits or Newhall about pigment prints.
>Was it the archaic name for one of the alt processes with which we are
>familiar or is it something else?
> CHEERS!
> BOB KISS