From: Sandy King (sanking@clemson.edu)
Date: 03/30/03-10:27:45 AM Z
Phillip wrote:
>This somewhat reminds me of the name game that's played with the Daguerreotype
>in many antique stores these days. Any Tintype or Ambrotype in a case has
>suddenly become a Daguerreotype!
>
>-Phillip
However, at least there is a point because labeling these processes
as daguerreotype is a name game that serves to enhance the status of
the tintype or abrotype. But it makes no sense to call a print made
by the carbon process a carbro since in the end they are both pigment
transfer images and from a historical perspective one does not have
more prestige than the other, in my opinion. In other words, it
primarily the process by which they are made that differentiates a
carbon print from a carbro.
Sandy King
>
>Sandy King wrote:
>
>> Judy Seigel wrote:
>>
>> >The Stewart prints aren't carbro -- I'd trust Tod Gangler's verdict that
>> >they're carbon. But there seems to be much available misinformation,
>> >either here or elsewhere. Went back to the gallery this PM, to get another
>> >look, &, having provoked husband's curiosity with my enthusiasm, let him
>> >have a look. Told the dealer that the all-knowing "list" said not carbro,
>> >he insisted was carbro because Aniere told him that the term carbon was
>> >only for black.
>>
>> I wonder how one could get to the root of this misinformation. Surely
>> Aniere would not have told the dealer that "carbon was only for
>> black." I mean, how is possible that a printer of his skills could
>> be so misinformed about such a basic issue. He would almost certainly
>> have to know that the hybrid nature of carbro is in the very name,
>> i.e. car (carbon) + bro (bromide). So if he really chose to call his
>> carbon prints carbro, knowing that they are not, does not that
>> constitute a significant misrepresentation of his work? If the
>> intent, as Tod suggests, was to call some attention to the prints
>> because he felt that some people would be familiar with the term
>> carbro he may have succeeded, but in the end it may turn out that the
>> attention they are given focuses more on the misrepresentation.
>>
>> Sandy King
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