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Dassonville, William E. "Charcoal Black". Sample album of various charcoal black photographic papers. 1920s. 10 vintage gelatin silver prints. Various sizes between circa 20 x 15 cm and 11 x 13,5 cm. Each sandwich-mounted in album page with printed paper descriptions on mount (edges of mounts and inner covers slightly soiled), bound in black full canvas boards (edges/corners rubbed, some scratch marks), stamped title Dassonville Charcoal Black on front cover. Dassonville Co. Ltd, San Franciso n.d. William Dassonville, also a chemist and one-time neighbor of Ansel Adams, made his own photo papers and emulsions for artistic effects in his prints, later expanding to producing photo paper, such as his famous "Charcoal Black", which Adams used himself in his printing up until 1933. The present book shows examples of the different papers and effects created by Dassonville with his beautiful charcoal black papers. It includes several well-known images such as: "San Francisco from Telegraph Hill" (1925), Ships, San Francisco Bay (c. 1925) and Cypress Trees (positive and negative image).

berlin, Germany