[pure-silver] Re: List gone quiet again


----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey Thorns" <puresilver@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:43 AM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: List gone quiet again


I just put up a show with all the prints toned in KBT. I've received a lot of comments, including questions about how to use KBT.

Funny how, what was once common (B&W prints with a brownish color to them), is now almost noteworthy as a novelty.

What is old is new again.

It is... When B&W photography was common and snapshots were typically processed by some photofinisher contracted by the corner drugstore, the most common prints were glossy finish contact prints on some blue-black paper like Velox. At that time warm tone and textured papers were associated with professional portrait photographers. Same with toning, it was not available to the casual snapshooter.
Color was very expensive and was considered very exotic. Even in advertising color was found only in the most expensive ads in magazines. Color then became cheaper and more common, then became the standard, so now it is B&W that is exotic.
When I show prints people always ask "did you make that" and are slightly amazed when I tell them I did them in my kitchen.

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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

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