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A Subtle Beauty: Platinum Photographs from the Collection
Revered for its permanence and subtle beauty, the platinum print played an important role in establishing photography as a fine art during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Composed of platinum metal embedded in the uppermost fibers of the paper, platinum photographs are characterized by luminous, textured surfaces that vary from a velvety matte to a lustrous sheen. The photographs are also prized for their extraordinary tonal range — from creamy shades of whites to delicate gray midtones and warm, sepia browns to the deepest blacks. These qualities made platinum prints a preferred choice among the pictorialists, an international group of turn-of-the-century photographers who championed the medium as a means for artistic expression. While some pictorialists advocated for the unmanipulated platinum ...
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Revered for its permanence and subtle beauty, the platinum print played an important role in establishing photography as a fine art during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Composed of platinum metal embedded in the uppermost fibers of the paper, platinum photographs are characterized by luminous, textured surfaces that vary from a velvety matte to a lustrous sheen. The photographs are also prized for their extraordinary tonal range — from creamy shades of whites to delicate gray midtones and warm, sepia browns to the deepest blacks. These qualities made platinum prints a preferred choice among the pictorialists, an international group of turn-of-the-century photographers who championed the medium as a means for artistic expression. While some pictorialists advocated for the unmanipulated platinum ...