What photographic processes do you handle?

The full historic range: daguerreotypes, salt prints, albumen prints, platinum and palladium prints, carbon prints, gelatin silver prints, dye transfer and chromogenic colour, and contemporary pigment prints. The process is always stated in the catalogue because it governs both value and conservation.

What is a vintage print?

A vintage print is one made by or under the direct supervision of the photographer at or close to the time the negative was exposed. Later prints from the same negative are catalogued as such, and the distinction has a substantial effect on value.

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Photographic processes, printing dates and vintage material.

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What photographic processes do you handle?
The full historic range: daguerreotypes, salt prints, albumen prints, platinum and palladium prints, carbon prints, gelatin silver prints, dye transfer and chromogenic colour, and contemporary pigment prints. The process is always stated in the catalogue because it governs both value and conservation.
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What is a vintage print?
A vintage print is one made by or under the direct supervision of the photographer at or close to the time the negative was exposed. Later prints from the same negative are catalogued as such, and the distinction has a substantial effect on value.
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