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Francis Frith
Mr Frith - Ruins of Egypt and Nubia
1858
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Google Books
LL/34387
Published in Photographic Notes, Vol. III, 1858, p.72-73
We have received for review, from Messrs. Negretti and Zambra, a superb collection of transparent slereoscopics of the ruins of Egypt and Nubia, by Mr. Frith. Nothing that we have seen in photography has interested us so much as this collection, not even the beautiful Swiss views of M. Ferrier, which we have carefully compared with them. Mr. Frith has proved himself equally successful with plates of the largest dimensions, and those for the stereoscope; and he is not only a skilful manipulator, but his subjects are remarkable for the judicious selection of the point of view, and observance of the time when the shadows are most effectively cast. His negatives are perhaps a trifle too dense for copying by development on glass slides. though not for sun-printing. The positives appear to have been printed on albumenized glass, and not on either dry or wet collodion. We prefer the black tint of some of Dr. Hill Norris's slides, to the reddish-brown of those on albumen, but the latter are superior in the density of the dark touches. Organic matter, capable of combining readily with silver, seems to be as necessary to give vigour to the blacks of a transparent print, as to one on paper.
We conceive that nothing finer or more interesting has yet been done in Photography than these Egyptian Stereoscopics, by Mr. Frith. Our readers should by all means take the first opportunity of inspecting them. The complete series comprises a hundred different subjects.
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