I have both the download and the actual book. Not sure if
there was more than one edition. Its in my stuff in storage. Very
frustrating.
Gevaert had some unique formulas but mostly the more or less
standard ones published by all sensitive material makers.
In my teens I used a lot of Gevaert Artex, mainly because it
was fairly cheap but I also liked it. Gevaert made an absolutely
unique paper called Gevaluxe Velours, it had a velvet surface
which made it look like velvet paintings. I never used it but one
of my mentors did. It had a deep ivory support. Suitable only for
some types of pictures. I wish I could get now. I heard later the
surface had rabbit fur in it but that may be apocryphal. I think
it is described in the Gevaert book but there is no way to know
what it looked like from a description.
Gevaert was eventually bought by Agfa. I am not certain which
papers and films Agfa continued. I also used lots of Gevaert
film, which was available in bulk for 20c a spool of 120 at the
dealer I used to frequent. Part of my mis-spent youth.
On 11/20/2019 5:51 AM, titrisol (Redacted sender titrisol for
DMARC) wrote:
Thanks for the archive links... it is fu to find stuff like this:
Gevaert Manual Of Photography : A.H.S. Craeybeckx : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive <https://archive.org/details/GevaertManualOfPhotography/page/n27>
Gevaert Manual Of Photography : A.H.S. Craeybeckx : Free
Download, Borro...
Gevaert Manual of Photography: A practical guide for professionals and advanced amateurs by A.H.S. Craeybeckx, F...
<https://archive.org/details/GevaertManualOfPhotography/page/n27>
I received a copy of a Gevaert Manual years ago, my uncle inherited from someone and I inherited form him.
My edition is in Spanish (beofre the Civil War) but is originally from the 20s.
On Monday, November 18, 2019, 11:59:50 PM EST, `Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You inspired me to look at Archive.org. I found both the
first (1916) and second (1920) editions of Flint. Turns out to
have been published by American Photography, the great bastion of
pictorialist photography. They published many interesting books
on photography. I also found another book with the same title
dating from 1902 written by Charles F. Townsend. This is a third,
revised edition, so, if the date is accurate the first edition
goes back a very long way. Its a British book and dating them is
sometimes difficult. I have not even scanned over it yet, the
internal evidence may confirm the date. However, there is an ad
in the back from Wratten and Wainright advertising their "London
Plates. W&W is the company C.E.K.Mees was a partner in when
George Eastman seduced him into coming to Rochester to create the
Kodak Research Laboratories. Mees's condition was that Eastman
buy out his partners and leave them in charge of the company.
Eastman did this so W&W became a trade mark for several Kodak
products. The labs were formed in 1911 suggesting the early date
is valid.
If Eastman wanted to buy someone out and they did not fight
him, he would let them continue to run whatever they created and
make make them rich.
I found these by doing plain search for chemistry for
photographers on archive.org If you have not already discovered
this site you must look right now. Lots of book, radio programs,
old movies, what have you.
On 11/18/2019 2:12 PM, janet ness wrote:
> Sorry to be late to this thread, but it reminded me of a book
> that's been on my shelf for years and which I've never read:
> /Chemistry for Photographers/, by William Ruthven Flint,
> published by American Photographic Publishing Co., 1916. It's
> part of the "Practical Photography" series. I wonder if it's
> worth the read?
>
> Janet Ness
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