Re: Could someone summarize that gum up or down discussion?

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>I find this a bit puzzling because, again, back in the lit, there
>were huge discussions where people were ignoring the fact that
>Pouncy's and Demachy's and others' gums were SO good that viewers
>could not tell whether they were a silver gelatin/carbon or a gum.
>So I have to assume from these discussions that it is possible to
>achieve that "carbon tonality" with the gum process. I could xerox
>all my xeroxes for you all to show the huge brouhaha that went on at
>that time about this very issue--can gum, in fact, give the same
>tonality and dmax as carbon transfer?? It seemed back then the proof
>was in the pudding but people continued to say it wasn't. Either
>that is because it, in fact, WASN'T, or they were too proud to back
>down.
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>Chris

Chris,

I wanted to mention one other thing. The aesthetics of tonal
compression was no important during the period of big p Pictorialism
that even carbon prints were typically made with very low Dmax, in
contrast to carbon prints made for commercial purposes.

Sandy
Received on Sat Apr 15 20:05:21 2006