From: Jack Fulton (jefulton1@attbi.com)
Date: 02/17/03-03:02:12 PM Z
Steve:
Silver Gelatin is the name (nomenclature) given to basic black and white
prints. When galleries began to sell photography they felt a criteria to
distinguish various prints was needed. B/w became silver gelatin because it
employed silver as the light sensitive halide and gelatin as the medium to
hold it together in an emulsion. Color photography, then improperly called
'C prints' became distinguished as the 'chromogenic' print. Chromogenic
means, in the simplest of terms, 'color generated'. Silver halides are
linked in development with precursors of dyes and form them in the
development process. The term was 'invented', or, coined, in the early 20th
C.
Dealers felt it important to establish proper names for photographic
processes so as to inform their clientele who pretty much thought al
photographs were, well, photographs.
Hope that helps.
Jack
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