From: Jack Fulton (jefulton1@attbi.com)
Date: 10/03/02-07:59:27 PM Z
The first place to look Patricia, is:
http://albumen.stanford.edu/library/monographs/reilly/chap1.html
This is the Stanford University archived site where you can also find other
information regarding the albumen process. But Mr. Reilly's book on salt and
albumen prints is the, well, pardon the expression in light of today's
atmosphere, bible on using these processes.
Jack
>> Yes, that is why I was curious why the book I have states that the
>> prints are not permanent.
>
>
> Patricia, If you had a nickel for every mistake in "a book," you
> could skip silver & go directly to gold -- bullion.
>
> I'll add that some of the most purely gorgeous prints I ever saw were in a
> show at the Metropolitan Museum marked "salt prints," with no explanation
> for why they were so much more glorious than other "salt prints" next to
> them.
>
> But "salt print" may be a very loose category... Don't all photographs use
> salts of one kind or another?
>
> Judy
>
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