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THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. Vol. XV. No. 662.—May 12, 1871. CONTENTS. PAGE Modes of Obtaining Large Photographs 217 Echoes of the Month. By An Old Photographer 218 A Highly Sensitive Paper for Printing by Development 219 American Correspondence 219 Portraits and Pictures. By Johannes Grasshof 221 A Suggestion for Mounting Glass Positives. By John C. Browne 222 Photography and the Stereoscope. By John Henderson 222 The “Edinburgh Review"’ on Photography 223 PAGE On Photography in the Printing Press, being a Description of the W orking of the Heliotype Process. By Ernest Edwards, Esq., B.A. (Cantab) 225 Strong and Weak Developers. By Elbert Anderson 226 Correspondence.—The Graphogenic—Keeping Plates Moist after Development—Photography without Dark Room 227 Proceedings of Societies.—Photographic Society of London 228 Talk in the Studio 228 To Correspondents 228 MODES OF OBTAINING LARGE PHOTOGRAPHS. For some years past there has been a growing taste for large photographs. This taste, which seems to arise as a reaction upon the rage for card and cabinet pic tures, is not necessarily in any degree antagonistic to the popularity of the smaller sizes, but may be cultivated as opening a new branch of the art, rather than super seding anything in existence. The desire for photographs which may be framed and hung has always existed in greater or less degree, but, from a variety of causes, has never been fully met. That the desire and taste are in creasing is manifest from varied forms of evidence. No thing has better illustrated the direction of photographic taste than the character of the pictures contributed to photographic exhibitions during the last two or three years. There has been at each exhibition a general resem blance in the degrees of excellence and in the qualities upon which excellence has depended ; but there has been a steady growth of size. Three or four years ago the rage for what has been termed Salomonesque portraiture set in. At first the size of the French master was adopted, and ten by eight portraits became common ; next we had an advance to twelve by ten ; then came Mr. Blanchard's grand examples of the same style, extended in size to six teen by twelve, and Mr. Slingsby’s noble portraits on whole sheets of paper. Mr. Warwick Brookes, and others, illustrated the same tendency in portraiture, and Col. Stuart Wortley in his fine and massive portrait studies. Instantaneous sea views, with the exception o one or two tours de force by Le Gray, used to be confined to stereo scopic slides ; but we have of late the magnificent pictures of this class, sixteen by twelve in size, by Messrs. Robinson and Cherrill, and the still larger examples by Col. Stuart Wortley. Tn landscape we have had the noble pictures of Mr. Earl, and others, all tending in the same direction. It may, of course, be remarked that the production of photographs of large size is no novelty : it is not; but the production of photographs of large size and exqui site excellence is a novelty. We have no hesitation in saying that the introduction of the card mania led to a revolution in photographic manipulation. A degree of excellence before unknown, or, at least, very exceptionally obtained, became imperative. First came mechanical per fection, in the shape of clean, spotless, stainless, negatives ; freedom from mess and irregularity in backgrounds; then delicacy of gradation, modelling, and diffusion of j definition; and gradually, in greater or less degree, higher artistic qualities, or, at least, more general diffusion of the appreciation of and desire for artistic qualities. The influence of the education and progress in photography thus achieved by small work has of late years shown itself in more ambitious pictures, and large photographs are now produced which are well worthy of taking the place of engravings for domestic mural decoration. When Mr. Dunmore, in a recent paper, called the attention of the South London Society to the demand for large photographs, his statement was endorsed by those who may be trusted as exponents of public taste in the matter. These, and other evidences not necessary to examine in detail, demonstrate the fact that, both amongst photographers and the public, large photographs are growing in favour. The question, important to many, will arise, as to which is the best method of producing large pictures. Many, possessed of the necessary appliances in the shape of lenses and cameras, will declare at once that, within certain reasonable limits, the production direct of the negatives of the full size is the best method ; and they might point triumphantly to the examples exhibited at the last exhibi tion in confirmation of their views. Unfortunately, how ever, to many photographers, especially amateurs and por traitists with modest establishments, the facilities for such direct work are inaccessible, whilst the work itself would be difficult. For these, and many other reasons, the production of small negatives, with a view to the subse quent production of large prints, presents itself as the most desirable and available mode of working. The best mode of enlarging becomes, then, the important considera tion. The use of the solar camera possesses undoubtedly many advantages. The finest possible enlarged prints are obtained by printing-out on albumenized paper by means of the solar camera. But the days upon which this process is possible in England are so few and so uncertain that no steady reliance can beplaced upon this asanavailablemethod. Developed prints, with very rare exceptions, arc not ‘ sufficiently perfect to be of value without considerable retouching ; and if developed prints were perfect, or sunny days plentiful and certain, the solar camera demands an extent of space for its arrangement, and experience for its working, quite beyond the reach of a very large number of photographers. Development printing by the aid of the magnesium light, and the production of enlarged negatives to print direct, both possess advantages, but, as a rule, the productions require considerable retouching. Mr. Dunmore, in his recent paper before the Photographic Society, called especial attention to the advantages of the production of enlarged paper negatives as an aid to the production of large prints, and as we some years ago
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