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[frameconnews] Identification of photo process



A customer brought in a portrait made during World War 1 at the Morgan 
Studios, Aberdeen, Scotland.  This picture looks very similar to a 
Carbon process portrait made by the same studio twenty to thirty years 
previously, but carries a label that identifies it only as a "Mezzotone" 
photograph.  It is a rich brown monochrome with a velvety surface 
texture and no sign of silver bloom or other aging marks.

Can anybody state with confidence that "Mezzotone" = Carbon process, or 
is it a proprietary name that means whatever the photographer wanted it 
to mean?
 
-- 
Mitch Park, CPF, GCF 
The Frame Place, 932 Heretaunga Street West
Hastings, NEW ZEALAND		+64-6-8787505
mailto:mfpark@xtra.co.nz              
http://www.frameplace.co.nz


 

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