From: Carl Weese (cweese@earthlink.net)
Date: 01/08/03-04:09:44 PM Z
Arthur,
Then I guess nobody will be able to make a dissertation out of it. Case
closed. Anyway, it's the wonderful haunting pictures that matter.---Carl
PS: I *am* surprised at the use of glass plates then. I wasn't photographing
in the 40's--I wasn't doing *anything* until 1949--but my father was a very
active photographer at that period, doing all the documentation photographs
at the plant where he was a machinist, and the impression I had from him was
that glass plates would have been incredibly outmoded then, prehistoric. I
don't think he'd ever used anything but sheet film from his start around
1930.
-- Yes, Disfarmer prints are available from the 292 Gallery here in NYC. Prices are reasonable enough, but the problem is that they are all "printed later," by the estate. As far as I know, there are no vintage prints in circulation, although it's said that they are still to be found in local Heber Springs photo albums. Arthur
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