Re: wet plate
Loren C. Pigniolo (lorenp@netcom.com)
Mon, 18 Apr 1994 14:11:36 -0700 (PDT)
In answer to your post regarding contemporary collodion process workers
(on this list and Photohst):
A colleague of mine here in San Francisco told me of his visit with a
fellow in the Santa Cruz, CA vicinity who works with collodion via
wet-plate and ferrotype. He is evidently very good. Here is his name
and address from the Daguerreian Society Directory.
William Dunniway
P. O. Box 443
Mount Hermon, CA 95041
408/338-9473
_Active in wet plate collodion photography, making historically correct
ambrotypes and ferrotypes using original equipment and formulas..._
I have been planning to visit him, but haven't had the chance as of yet.
If you contact him, please let me know what he is up to.
If you are interested in trying the process, I can offer a few references:
Ellis, M. H.. The Ambrotype and Photographic Instructor or, Photography
on Glass and Paper. Myron Shew. Philadelphia, 1856. Reprint by Peter E.
Palmquist, January 1990.
Feldvebel, Thomas. The Ambrotype Old and New. Graphic Arts Research
Center, Rochester Institute of Technology. Rochester NY, 1980.
Sobieszek, Robert, ed.. The Collodion Process and the Ferrotype, Three
Accounts 1854-1872. Arno Press. NY, 1973.
I hope this has been helpful. Please keep in contact regarding your
progress.
Yours,
Loren C. Pigniolo | voice/fax: 415/665-1827
Photographic Preservation Specialist | voice: 800/484-9808 x7841
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On Fri, 15 Apr 1994, Claude Seymour wrote:
> Is there anybody on this list who has done or is doing wet plate? I think
> Doug Munson at the Chicago Albumen Works is and I think there is a guy in
> California who is. At least that is what the blurb behind his name in an
> old Daguerreian Society directory indicates. The Munson reference comes
> from an article on Wm. Henry Jackson in a National Geographic a few years
> back. Munson was rephotographing Jackson subjects in wet plate for the
> article.
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