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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1922 (1920s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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r, fine as the results produced by this medium are, lacksthe opportunity for control, and expression of individuality,which a process to be suited to the needs of the pictorialistshould have. Platinum renders gradations in the highlightsbetter than any other process, but is not so susceptible to con-trol as Gum and does not give so rich a black as can beobtained with some other processes. Hand coated platinumwith several printings is much better. The Carbon Processis rather laborious to handle and difficult in hot weather, butgives a beautiful richness in the shadows, and detail that ishard to equal, but is not nearly as easy to modify in contrast,either locally or totally, as Gum. The Advantages of Gum Are: 1. Your choice of color and texture of paper support arepractically unlimited. 2. Modifications of relative values are made more easilythan in any other medium except Oil and Bromoil andas easily as in these. 3. The possibilities of modification of total contrast areunlimited. 124
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YANKEE DOODLE. FRANCIS ORVILLE LIBBY. 125 The Disadvantages of Gum Are: I That it is difficult and almost impossible to get exactlythe same result on duplicate prints. 2. (he process on account of its great flexibility appearsdifficult at the beginning. This apparent difficulty Ihope to prove to you is not very real. 3. The rendition of very fine and intricate detail is almostimpossible on account of the looseness of texture in aGum print but this is rather an advantage than other-v^ise, as it tends to give a breadth to the picture it mightnot otherwise have. Gum is not a process to be used in small sizes of pictures,but rather for the production of exhibition pictures, and thosein which you desire to express something more than the limita-tions of the lens and plate have allowed you to get on yournegative. It is a process for the impressionist, not the realist,and is for the man who has an idea to put in permanent form,an interpretation of some beautiful mood of nature, ratherthan fo

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