RE: Fresson and handmade

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From: Peter Marshall (petermarshall@cix.co.uk)
Date: 06/10/02-04:16:22 PM Z


Of course, but I'm not sure why you are telling me this. You could read
most of it on my site anyway, for example in:
The Pencil of Nature
http://photography.about.com/library/weekly/aa060302a.htm

Peter Marshall
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> I believe that both Talbot and Cameron were quite keen on making some
> money
> off their photographic efforts. In the winter of 1865-66 Cameron
> consigned
> about 460 prints to the Colnaghi Gallery in London. They also offered
> prints
> taken in the Crimea by Roger Fenton. Cameron even had a published price
> list. Later Cameron hired the Autotype Company to produce carbon prints
> for
> her.
>
> Talbot of course set up a production line at Reading to mass produce
> photographs for the first commercial book of photography, "The Pencil of
> Nature".
>
> Ian M. Doyle
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Marshall [mailto:petermarshall@cix.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 11:36 AM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: Re: Fresson and handmade
>
>
> > Or a few Talbots or Cameron's?
> >
> > None of the above produced any "limited editions." So why bother?
> >
> > --Dick
>
> Unfortunately all of the Talbots are rather faded, and the Camerons have
> terrible processing faults.... :-)
>
> I quite like the idea of 'unlimited editions' though.
>
> Peter Marshall
> Photography Guide at About http://photography.about.com/
> email: photography.guide@about.com
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> and elsewhere......
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