The Art and Practice of Silver Printing. H. P. Robinson

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       H. P. Robinson, William de Wiveleslie Sir Abney

      The Art and Practice of Silver Printing

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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      EAN 4057664577207

Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       CHAPTER I. THEORY OF SILVER PRINTING.

       PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTS.

       CHAPTER II. PREPARATION OF ALBUMENIZED PAPER.

       CHAPTER III. THE SENSITIZING BATH FOR ALBUMENIZED PAPER.

       CHAPTER IV. HOW TO KEEP THE SENSITIZING BATH IN ORDER.

       CHAPTER V. APPLYING THE SILVERING SOLUTION TO THE ALBUMENIZED PAPER.

       CHAPTER VI. WASHED SENSITIVE PAPER.

       CHAPTER VII. CUTTING PAPER.

       CHAPTER VIII. PRINTING-FRAMES.

       CHAPTER IX. PREPARING A LANDSCAPE NEGATIVE FOR PRINTING.

       CHAPTER X. PRINTING THE LANDSCAPE PICTURE.

       CHAPTER XI. PREPARING THE PORTRAIT NEGATIVE.

       CHAPTER XII. VIGNETTING

       CHAPTER XIII. ARTISTIC METHODS OF PRINTING THE PORTRAIT.

       CHAPTER XIV. COMBINATION PRINTING.

       CHAPTER XV. TONING THE PRINT.

       CHAPTER XVI. FIXING THE PRINT.

       CHAPTER XVII. WASHING THE PRINT.

       CHAPTER XVIII. PRINTING ON PLAIN PAPER.

       CHAPTER XIX. PRINTING ON RESINIZED PAPER.

       CHAPTER XX. PRINTING ON GELATINO-CHLORIDE EMULSION PAPER.

       CHAPTER XXI. DRYING THE PRINTS.

       CHAPTER XXII. MOUNTING PHOTOGRAPHS.

       CHAPTER XXIII. DEFECTS IN PRINTS.

       CHAPTER XXIV. ENCAUSTIC PASTE.

       CHAPTER XXV. ENAMELLING PRINTS.

       CHAPTER XXVI. CAMEO PRINTS.

       APPENDIX.

       Reduction of Over-Exposed Prints.

       Utilization of Silver Residues.

       To Print from Weak and Hard Negatives.

       To Make Gold Tri-Chloride [ AU CL 3 ].

       To Make Silver Nitrate.

PREFACE.

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      Silver printing has been often doomed, but it still survives. Other processes of photographic printing have been introduced, nearly all of them having their individual merits, especially that of permanency, but all lacking in two essential qualities—ease of production and beauty of result. In these particulars no process has ever approached the one to the working of which this little book is devoted. The one defect of silver printing is the possibility of its results fading; but surely it is better to be beautiful, if fading, than permanent and ugly. It is better to be charmed with a beautiful thing for a few years, than be bored by an ugly one for ever. But is silver printing necessarily a fading process? We have in our possession a large number of silver photographs produced from twenty to twenty-five years ago, which are as perfect in tone and colour as when they were produced. Carefully prepared, and properly kept, a silver print should be as permanent as any other. That silver prints should be permanent as well as beautiful, has been the object of

      THE AUTHORS.

CHAPTER I.

       THEORY OF SILVER PRINTING.

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      Perhaps it may be wise, first of all, to give the reader some account of the manner in which the subject of silver printing is to be treated, before entering into very minute details, so that it may be followed as a whole, instead of being studied in fragments, a course which is sure to lead to failure, from a want of comprehending what may have been skipped. To understand "the why" and "the wherefore" of every detail is an essential in most occupations, and it is wonderful that photographers are satisfied with the results of rule-of-thumb formulæ, instead of reasoning out their utility. In the following pages most of the theoretical considerations will be brought out in such a manner that everyone will be able to understand them, provided only that there is a slight acquaintance with the name and properties of the chemicals which are dealt with.

PRELIMINARY