What does the print look like? Getting “that” look. Printing out albumin or gelatin paper was the look. Atget’s prints were also marked by lens falloff; usually the upper corners are dark because the lens didn’t cover for the camera movement used. This “technic” wasn’t important to satisfy the goals Atget set himself– sell images to other image makers for their purpose of study and reference.
The schematic of Atget’s image tones produced by his effort, and by the work of successors making reprints from his originals.
POP Refs:
- https://cool.culturalheritage.org/albumen/video/
- https://cool.culturalheritage.org/albumen/video/munsonhome.html
and for info about toning ‘salt prints’ this: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/15614798.pdf
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