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65: 99:"The ordinary photographic print, however good, lacks depth and transparency, or more strictly speaking, translucency. We all know how beautiful are the stones and pebbles in the limpid brook of the forest where the water absorbs the blue of the sky and the green of the foliage, yet when we take the same iridescent pebbles from the water and dry them they are dull and lifeless, so it is with the ordinary photographic print, but in the Curt-Tones all the transparency is retained and they are as full of life and sparkle as an opal." 17: 51:
impregnated with gold-colored pigment, to yield a gold-toned image. Alternatively, the developed glass plate can be gold-leafed by hand with 23-karat gold leaf. Being printed on glass, orotone images are extremely fragile and often require specialized frames in order to prevent breakage. Other types
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A Virtual Exhibition on Orotone Photographs, Created for the University of Washington Special Collections Division by Christy Hansen, Class of 2011 Museology Graduate Program
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The making of orotone prints was contemporary art in the early twentieth century. Orotones are often to be seen in interiors associated with the
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print which can be made from a negative. An orotone photograph is created by printing a positive on a glass plate precoated with a
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of prints can be made with the same negative used to make an orotone. Consequently, silver gelatin prints and
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during his career. Curtis developed the "Curt-Tone", using techniques which he claimed were superior.
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Prayer to the Great Mystery: The Uncollected Writings and Photography of Edward S. Curtis
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Photography's Antiquarian Avant-Garde, the New Wave in Old Processes
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Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated.
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Double Spiral", orotone print by Sally Larsen, 1983
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Vatican Museums
photographic
silver gelatin
emulsion
banana oil
platinotypes

Photoshop
Arts and Crafts movement
Seattle
Edward S. Curtis
Native Americans
Sally Larsen
Ryan Zoghlin
Nevada Museum of Art
http://www.therainbowman.com/goldtone.htm
ISBN
0-8109-0402-0
A Virtual Exhibition on Orotone Photographs, Created for the University of Washington Special Collections Division by Christy Hansen, Class of 2011 Museology Graduate Program
A Curtis orotone.
A second example.
A third example (Zoghlin)
Categories
Photographic techniques
Contemporary art

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