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Re: FW: Re: Dassonville Charcoal black paper
...I used Dassonville Charcoal paper when I was a student at R.I.T. in the early
'50s...Defender(Dupont) was coating it then, as I recall...
Terry
James Romeo wrote:
> I was talking to some people yesterday and they told me that Palladio was
> not in production. I remember it was commented on alt that it was out.
> There used to be such great papers.All gone now. One of the reasons I went into
> alt-process. James Romeo
> ---Original Message-----
>
> From: cweese@earthlink.net
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: Re: Dassonville Charcoal black paper
> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 11:27:58 -0500
>
> Mac,
>
> Were these contemporary prints, or work from the "Pictorialist" era at
> the turn of the last century? At that time there were literally scores
> of platinum papers in a wide range of tints and surfaces, from at least
> half a dozen different manufacturers and "Dassonville Charcoal Black"
> has the sound of one of these. Of course they've all been gone for
> eighty years now. Palladio, when it's in production, is the only
> manufactured Pt/Pd paper still in existence as far as I'm aware.
>
> ---Carl
>
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