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- Ausgabe No. 592, January 7, 1870 1
- Ausgabe No. 593, January 14, 1870 13
- Ausgabe No. 594, January 21, 1870 25
- Ausgabe No. 595, January 28, 1870 37
- Ausgabe No. 596, February 4, 1870 49
- Ausgabe No. 597, February 11, 1870 61
- Ausgabe No. 598, February 18, 1870 73
- Ausgabe No. 599, February 25, 1870 85
- Ausgabe No. 600, March 4, 1870 97
- Ausgabe No. 601, March 11, 1870 109
- Ausgabe No. 602, March 18, 1870 121
- Ausgabe No. 603, March 25, 1870 133
- Ausgabe No. 604, April 1, 1870 145
- Ausgabe No. 605, April 8, 1870 157
- Ausgabe No. 606, April 14, 1870 169
- Ausgabe No. 607, April 22, 1870 181
- Ausgabe No. 608, April 29, 1870 193
- Ausgabe No. 609, May 6, 1870 205
- Ausgabe No. 610, May 13, 1870 217
- Ausgabe No. 611, May 20, 1870 229
- Ausgabe No. 612, May 27, 1870 241
- Ausgabe No. 613, June 3, 1870 253
- Ausgabe No. 614, June 10, 1870 265
- Ausgabe No. 615, June 17, 1870 277
- Ausgabe No. 616, June 24, 1870 289
- Ausgabe No. 617, July 1, 1870 301
- Ausgabe No. 618, July 8, 1870 313
- Ausgabe No. 619, July 15, 1870 325
- Ausgabe No. 620, July 22, 1870 337
- Ausgabe No. 621, July 29, 1870 349
- Ausgabe No. 622, August 5, 1870 361
- Ausgabe No. 623, August 12, 1870 373
- Ausgabe No. 624, August 19, 1870 385
- Ausgabe No. 625, August 26, 1870 397
- Ausgabe No. 626, September 2, 1870 409
- Ausgabe No. 627, September 9, 1870 421
- Ausgabe No. 628, September 16, 1870 433
- Ausgabe No. 629, September 23, 1870 445
- Ausgabe No. 630, September 30, 1870 457
- Ausgabe No. 631, October 7, 1870 469
- Ausgabe No. 632, October 14, 1870 481
- Ausgabe No. 633, October 21, 1870 493
- Ausgabe No. 634, October 28, 1870 505
- Ausgabe No. 635, November 4, 1870 517
- Ausgabe No. 636, November 11, 1870 529
- Ausgabe No. 637, November 18, 1870 541
- Ausgabe No. 638, November 25, 1870 553
- Ausgabe No. 639, December 2, 1870 565
- Ausgabe No. 640, December 9, 1870 577
- Ausgabe No. 641, December 16, 1870 589
- Ausgabe No. 642, December 23, 1870 601
- Ausgabe No. 643, December 30, 1870 613
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it. There is strong general testimony to the excellent keeping qualities of the plates ; hut Mr. England expresses a decided conviction that these, in common with every kind of dry plate, deteriorate from the time of their prepara tion. The gum-gallic plates exposed fresh, he found, gave good results with an exposure of twice as long as that required for wet plates ; but at the expiration of a week the exposure required considerably increasing, and under such circumstances developed better with alkaline pyro gallic solutions than with the iron solution recommended by Mr. Gordon. The coffee process has also received some attention during the year, and M. de Constant has found that with the addition of gum, excellent results are obtained. Mr. Sutton announced a new alkaline process, having some analogy to Mr. Bartholomew’s gelatine and carbonate of soda process. In the recent process, the alkaline conditions are more thoroughly carried out, and alkaline development employed. The process was some what complicated, but gave hope of sensitiveness. No trust worthy reports of its successful application have reached us. The impulse given to photographic portraitists a couple of years ago by the exhibition of the works of M. Adam- Salomon has continued, and borne good fruit in the higher art qualities which have distinguished the works of many of the portraitists, in this country, the especial class of portraiture which has been designated as Salomonesque having come extensively into vogue, with, however, in many cases, sufficient modification to stamp the individu ality of each producer upon his pictures. The pleasing new style of portraiture introduced by Mr. Sarony, and named photo-crayons, has attracted considerable attention, and has been largely in demand. The very successful exhibition of the Photographic Society, held in November, afforded ample illustration of the advance of art-qualities in various branches of photo graphy. The practice of combination printing, as one of the aids to increasing the plasticity of photography, steadily increases in the hands of photographers who aim at the production of pictorial effect, notwithstanding the strange abuse which the system has received, both from capable and incapable writers, who inveigh against it as of necessity untruthful. Those writers overlook the fact that truth, in any form of art, depends rather on the capa city of the artist to perceive and embody truth, than on the mechanical means—whether pencil, camera, or printing frame—by which the truth is embodied. The most perfect mechanical means may fail to render truth in incapable hands, and thus the simplest form of photography be made false and misleading ; whilst, in the hands of a cultivated and conscientious artist, combination printing will always be kept under the governance of art truth. Photography gradually takes its place more firmly and widely as a recognized branch of economics. Its appli cations are more numerous, extensive, and valuable, and, in many respects, its commercial prospects are improving. The societies generally are flourishing, but some have ceased to meet, and the North London has ceased to exist. It had done good service during many years, but gra dually declined, having, as its committee concluded, done its work. The Photographic Society of London and the South London Society are active and flourishing. Death has removed some veterans in the art. Mr. Koger Fenton, one of the earliest and most successful photo graphers, and the practical founder of the Photographic Society, died during the year; Mr. Hockin, an early pho tographer and skilful photographic chemist, also died; Mr. Petschler, a gentleman whose name was familiarly known amongst dry-plate workers, died also. PHOTO-MECHANICAL PRINTING. Tub success of Herr Albert in photo-mrehanieal printing has stimulated experiment in this direction amazingly on the Continent, in this country, and in America ; but, so far as we can judge from the examples which have come under our attention, none as yet approach in excellence those pro duced in Munich by Herr Albert. The fault of his earlier impressions was that common to most processes based on the lithographic principle, a certain woolliness and want of vigour in the deep blacks. In more recent examples this defect appears to have been overcome. In a recent packet of specimens possessing unusual beauty, richness, and depth, and the surface having been treated with some waterproof preparation, probably collodion, the impression very closely resembles exceedingly perfect prints on albuminized paper. As yet no arrangements exist for working this process in England; but we believe plans are in progress by which this method of working will be established here. Most nearly resembling those of Albert are the prints produced by a similar process, styled “ Lichtdruck,” worked in Berlin by Ohm and Grossman. We have not seen many examples, but these, although not bad viewed as photo mechanical prints, are decidedly inferior to those of Albert. An agent has been appointed in this country, we understand, and it is the intention to supply lessons and licence to practise the process for a fixed fee. We shall await with interest an explanation of the need for a licence to practise an unpatented process. A somewhat bitter antagonism exists between the Munich and Berlin establishments, into the merits of which we are unable to enter; but we may remark that Herr Albert writes to us to say that the pro cess practised in the latter is an early and imperfect method of his own, yielding only a limited number of impressions. Experience will determine this question. We have received within the last few days some examples of photo-mechanical printing by Edwards and Kidd, by a method recently patented, but of which no particulars are yet divulged. The examples consist of reproductions and subjects from nature, and possess characteristics in many respects different frommost of the results of photo-mechani cal printing we have seen. Judging from the appearance of the prints, we are disposed to regard them as impressions from intaglio plates, some of the impressions presenting an effect which suggests a mixture of photographic and hand labour. The best example is a reproduction from an en graving by Albert Durer, which is crisp and perfect. A vignette portrait from nature possesses many excellent qualities. We shall look with much interest for an oppor tunity of examining the practical results of the process, as the early examples possess decided promise. We have been favoured by our friend Mr. Wilson, of Philadelphia, with some examples of a similar process to that of Albert, by Mr. Delius, of Waterbury, who has adopted our suggestion of styling the prints "photo-collographs" in contradistinction to photo-lithographs. The specimens we have received arc manifestly the results of early experiment, for whilst they suggest the possibilities of excellence, they also illustrate the presence of the special difficulties which beset processes of this kind, and which only experience in working can enable the operator to overcome. We look with interest for the examples of progress by this gentleman. Another illustration of mechanical printing received during the past year comes from Canada, and is very ambitious in its aim. It is by the “ Leggotype ” process, which we noticed some time ago, a process of photo-block printing, and is employed in producing illustrations for the Canadian Illustrated News, a new journal published in Montreal. The attempts are very ambitious. One example is a ten by eight portrait of Prince Arthur, from a negative by Notman. The portrait we can only regard as a failure ; but a two-page block, eighteen inches by fourteen, produced by the process from a sketch in indian-ink, representing the reception of Prince Arthur in Montreal, possesses some elements of excellence. The editor of the journal refers to it in terms of satisfaction, as being a faithful reproduction of the drawing produced in an incredibly short space of time, the photographer taking the place of the engraver. The. Leggotype process is a method of obtaining a surface print-
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