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Sinclair, James A. (fl. 1940). - Photographic personal souvenir album containing 70 platinum prints - views of Tyrol (Tirol, Italy and Austria) and several of Paris (France),
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| Schrijver: | Sinclair, James A. (fl. 1940). |
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| Titel: | Photographic personal souvenir album containing 70 platinum prints - views of Tyrol (Tirol, Italy and Austria) and several of Paris (France), |
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| Bijzonderheid: | all prints of slightly varying size, ca.8,1 x 12,6 cm. (image)/ 12 x 18,5 cm. (leaf), with manuscript captions in ink on opposite versos; the album dated in manuscript on title-page "Tyrol. August, 1909" and with initials "E.P." and "C.W.", handbo... |
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€ 1200,00
€ 5,50
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| Meer info | = All prints seem to be personal photographs, not the regular photostudio-manufactured views, but carefully and skilfully composed mountainviews with lakes, Alps, forests, villages, personal posings, tourist views. The album is executed in a valuable way. The platinum prints themselves were costly to process as well. James Sinclair was a specialist in souvenir albums like this. James A. Sinclair was a manufacturer and supplier of cameras and photographic equipment and owned a shop in London. He supplied amongst others all of the cameras and photographic equipment used during the expedition to excavate the tomb of King Tut in the Valley of the Kings, from 1922 to 1932. Condition: A remarkably well preserved album - as durable as one might expect from platinum prints... On the platinum print - or palladium print process: The platinum print, or platinotype, or palladium print was invented in 1873, is one of the most noble and expensive processes. Its main features are a matte finish and a very long tonal scale - especially in the shadows, deep dark values, almost absolute persistence over time: the metallic molecules trapped in the paper will gone only with the paper itself. No risks at all for fading. The process was created to elevate photography as a fine art. It involves brushing chemistry onto paper, creating a unique effect. The process is expensive and uses noble metals like platinum. The resulting prints are very permanent and don't fade. It’s a contact printing process. So you produce the negative to whatever size you want the final print to be. You would place it in contact with the sensitized paper and expose with sunlight and after exposure a faint image would appear. Once you place the photograph in the developer the image is fully realized. The image sits in the paper rather than on the paper. Platinum gives you a broader tonal range than any other process even digital today. The platinum print is often called ‘The King’ of photographic prints. It is regal because of the metals. They’re called noble metals, gold, platinum. Not everybody can do this process because it’s very expensive and it actually dies out around World War I because they need platinum for the war effort. But one of the things about the platinum print that’s very special is that it’s a very permanent print. Platinum prints don’t fade. They may yellow in the highlights because of bad processing but the image never fades. |
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