Just Added! Index to the Research from the Andrew W. Mellon Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation.
From negative to prints: excerpt from ongoing research by Valentina Branchini, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation, George Eastman House.
The richness of the Alvin Langdon Coburn collection at GEH allows exploration of the photographer's working method, reestablishing sequences from negative to prints.
| Cristoid film | Platinum print | Photogravure |
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Alfred Stieglitz
The reconstruction of such a sequence helps a further understanding of solutions and choices that at first glance could seem related to aesthetic issues only. Here, for instance, the shape of a tondo adopted for the platinum print is a unique case in the Coburn's portraiture I have seen so far. When looking at the negative, it becomes clear that it was Coburn's brilliant solution for overcoming the loss in the top left corner of the film, which would have been otherwise very hard to disguise in the print. (more...)