[pure-silver] Re: old papers and new papers
- From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 17:41:37 -0600
On 11/29/2014 05:19 PM, Janet Gable Cull wrote:
I'm reading an article Les Myers sent me (from Online Photographer) about Voja
Mitrovic. Here is an interesting statement by Peter Turnley: " It was also a
time when the highest quantity of silver was in printing papers. Voja has
indicated that there are certain qualities of richness in gray tonal values that
he could never achieve with today’s papers, that he was able to obtain in the
late 'seventies and early 'eighties.
Do any of you know which of today's papers are higher in silver content? or
most like the older papers he may have been referring to? He didn't say
specifically which papers he liked using, but did refer to the change (down) at
the introduction of multi-grade papers.
Here is a link to the article, if you're interested. I found it most
interesting to find that many of the "greats" didn't do their own printing.
That's not what I'd have imagined. Anyway, I have enjoyed it, and hope you do,
too.
http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2014/11/top-classic-yoja-mitrovic-printer-to-the-greats.html
Janet
I've seen this claim before and it's just not true as far as I've been able to
determine.
There is plenty of silver in today's papers and I'd have to see analytical proof
of this claim before I'd believe it. I'm not saying he's wrong, I'm saying that
"qualities of richness" to a single person's subjective eye does not constitute
actual proof of the claim he is making.
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