A Critical Causerie

[Gandhi]

Into my posession has come a set of Amateur photographer magazines from 1925 & 1926. The original owner has had them all bound, alas at the expense of their front covers, but every single copy for 2 years is there and in pretty mint condition!

Happy Happy Joy Joy!

As such, I shall share some the bits and pieces with you from the relevant weeks, 80 years ago. Unless of course you tell me to shut up that is!

Anyways.......Peer review!!!!!

I hope you can read them???

Stupid image size regulations!

Hope you find as much interest and mirth in reading this article as I did!

 

[Carl V]

I don't think anybody here will tell you to shut up Gandhi.

Personally, I would love to find out what photographers were reading about 80 years ago.

 

[RobertP]

I was looking at google books the other day. There are some really old photography books there that you can read in full. One I looked at went into detail about making glass plates ready for the camera.

 

[Gandhi]

I have a couple of old photography books for 'Stanza' on me Iphone. One about the chemistry, written at the time of Fox-Talbot and another about the mechanics of making all the diferent types of paper and plates from daguerrotypes to uranotypes (pretty dangerous that last one)

All of this and I have never bothered to go to the Fox-Talbot museum at laycock, just down the road.

Thats next Sunday sorted then!

I'd quite like to try some of the older processes but I simply dont have the time at the moment. First on my list is Carbon transfer printing

 

[ifotou]

interesting stuff

Ghandi - with these being 1925/1926 i'm assuming they were on orthochromatic film rahter than panchromatic film also which just makes it even more intriguing in my eyes

 

[mmcp42]

interesting that the same comments made there still apply now
my particular bee-filled bonnet is with sloping horizons - nothing new there then!

 

[Gandhi]

interesting stuff

Ghandi - with these being 1925/1926 i'm assuming they were on orthochromatic film rahter than panchromatic film also which just makes it even more intriguing in my eyes

Both probably, and a mixture of plates and film I would imagine. The magazines make constatnt reference to all 4.

interesting that the same comments made there still apply now
my particular bee-filled bonnet is with sloping horizons - nothing new there then!

Indeed. Nothing much changes, there are articles on stitching panoramas together whilst printing, how to replace the skies in a print etc etc etc. and everybody thinks photoshop is the saviour of photography!

 

[ifotou]

that'll be me getting my dates mixed up i thought it was mid 1930's when panchromatic film started but it was mid 1920's whoops