All Discussions (669)

Sort by

The Combined Societies

In an historiographical essay in his recently published book on The Gernsheim Collection, Roy Flukinger refers in passing to Gernsheim's association with the so-called Combined Societies The Combined Societies - established at a meeting in Cheltenham

Read more…
14 Replies

Neogravure

Any suggestions?

I have seen the patent papers in Melbourne (Vic) of 1878 and it is listed as a 'photographic process' no further details.

I suspect that it was a business limiter with no real existence!!

Many thank

John Davies

Read more…
1 Reply

Retouching techniques

As a complete novice when it comes to photographic techniques could someone tell me if there is term for the procedure which seems to have been used mainly in newspapers from the early to the middle of the twentieth century in which photographs were

Read more…
6 Replies