Photograph Identification Guide
by David Rudd Cycleback

Chapter 4 : IDENTIFYING STANDARD PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES & PRINTS : INTROUDCTION

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While there have been many different photographic processes and prints, you will be glad to know that well over ninety nine percent of all of history's paper photographs belong to three types of prints: Albumen prints, the most popular photograph of the 1800s. Almost all those 1800s CDVs and cabinet cards have albumen prints. Gelatin-silver prints, the most popular 1900s black and white photograph. Almost all those wirephotos, old b/w family snapshots and Hollywood press photos are gelatin-silver. C-prints or chromogenic prints, the most popular true color photograph. Almost all of your family color photos and color photos of atheletes are c-prints. The next three chapters will focus on these three processes. Later chapters will cover other, rarer processes. The collector who is able to identify and judge the age of prints is able to identify both vintage and reprinted photographs. cycleback.com................photos main (c) david rudd cycleback, cyclback.com all rights reserved