[pure-silver] Re: A moment of silence, please..
- From: "Steve Goldstein" <sgold@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 21:07:19 -0400
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> At 05:40 PM 4/1/2008, you wrote:
> >Today I received my copy of Mees' _The Theory of the Photographic Process_,
> >2nd edition, 1963 printing, from a used bookseller in Canada. It's
> >in excellent
> >condition, in fact it looks like it has never been opened except to
> >paste in the
> >book plates and loan-card flap. The copy is very prominently marked
> >in several
> >places as belonging to the Reference Library of the National Film Board.
> >
> >It seems a sad day indeed that the NFB (yes, I know it's cinema, but
> >it's still
> >film) feels they no longer need this volume.
> >
> >Sic transit gloria mundi. At least it didn't end up in the landfill :)
>
>
> I am a bit puzzled about which edition this is. 1963 is a bit
> late for the "Revised" edition (not called the second edition in the
> book), which I believe was published about 1951. This sounds more
> like the 3rd edition by Mees and James. Mees retired about 1960 or 61
> and died shortly thereafter. The third and forth editions are larger
> in format than the original and revised editions.
> There is a difference in the style of the earlier and later
> editions. While each section of the earlier ones was written by a
> specialist the book has a greater sense of unity than the later ones.
> The science of photographic chemistry was changing very quickly
> at the time the third and forth editions were written and this may
> have something to do with it.
> I find the earlier editions valuable because they have good
> sections on sensitometery and tone rendition in them.
>
>
> --
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles, CA, USA
> dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
Sorry, I said "2nd edition", it's actually marked as the Revised
Edition, Copyright 1954, Fourth Printing 1963. It has a dark blue
hard binding. Only Mees is listed on the title page.
steve
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