[pure-silver] Re: Roughing It
- From: Eric Nelson <emanmb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:44:17 -0700 (PDT)
I find this story fascinating so I went to pbs.org and
searched "Civil War prisoner" and founds this page.
The images in question aren't shown (dang it) but the
transcript is there in pdf form and a video blurb
about civil war photography.
Eric
http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigations/409_cwpowphoto.html
--- Bob Rosen <afterswift@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Talking about darkroom work, PBS recently ran an
> interesting segment on a
> Civil War prisoner in a federal camp who secretly
> built a studio in the
> attic of a barracks building. He then built a camera
> out of packing crates,
> adapted a lens from something he had with him, and
> made portraits of his
> fellow Confederates. He stole chemicals from the
> hospital nearby, and made
> his own wet plates.
>
> By comparison, working in my darkroom is a luxury.
>
> This might be idle speculation: But as the public
> gravitates to digital
> instant gratification, we could find society
> recreating the professionalism
> of the Civil War era when photography was the
> province of an elite group,
> like doctors, who were respected and did work that
> equalled that of the
> portrait painter for the middle classes. In contrast
> to the popular do it
> yourself digital ephermeral CD technology, the
> classic silver professional
> will respond to the public need for permanence and
> very high quality in both
> portraiture and other fields
>
> Bob
>
>
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