Re: aristotype?

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From: Michael Healy (mjhealy@kcnet.com)
Date: 02/22/03-09:45:45 AM Z


Crawford, Keepers, p.63: "In the early 1890's albumen finally lost its role
as a printing-out to the new printing-out collodion silver chloride and
gelatin silver chloride presensitized papers, known in America under the
general name <Aristoype>. Kodak put out a popular printing-out gelatin
silver chloride paper, called <Solio>, in 1892."

Crawford, p. 64 (caption under an Aristotype): "Gelatin silver chloride,
printing-out <Aristotypie> paper was first manufactured by Paul Eduard
Liesengang, of Dusseldorf, in 1886. Others followed suit. After printing,
Aristotypes were usually toned in a solution of potassium chloroplatinite.
Sometimes a gold chloride toning bath was used instead, and sometimes both
platinum and gold baths were used. The prints were generally warm black to
blue-black in color, although brown tones were possible. Aristotypes were
often hard to tell apart from platinum prints. If there is even the
slightest sheen in the highlights, the print is more likely to be an
Aristotype."

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shannon Stoney" <sstoney@pdq.net>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 6:17 PM
Subject: aristotype?

I got a bulletin from the Museum of Fine Art in Houston today, and on
the cover is an amazing photograph of the Eiffel Tower being struck
by lightning, from 1902, and it is described as an aristotype. What
is that? (Maybe you have to be an Ancien Regime aristocrat to make
one?)

--shannon


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