Re: atget's arrowroot paper prints?

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From: Philip willarney (pwillarney@yahoo.com)
Date: 09/08/02-04:27:30 PM Z

--- shannon stoney <sstoney@pdq.net> wrote:
> I saw some Atget prints at the mfa in houston
> yesterday that were
> labelled "arrowroot paper photograph."
...snip...

Check out ARROWROOT PAPER for a probable answer
--(http://albumen.stanford.edu/library/c19/arrowrt.html);
arrowroot is used as a size, as I understand it, to
keep the image on top of the paper rather than soaking
into it.

-- Philip

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