Book on Edward Curtis techniques?

[Drew Wiley]

He worked in all kinds of media. I've seen cyantotypes and albumen prints done by
him. Then there's some of the specialty techniques already mentioned, and some
hand-colored prints. But it's the classic gravures which seem to be most in demand. These are generally leaves removed from a folio and sold separately. Fifty bucks
sure ain't bad for those lovely portraits you bagged, Bob! But let me know when
you stumble onto a nice big print of Geronimo - I'll refund you the fifty and keep the other $99,950.

[blueribbontea]

old thread but I just found out we have the complete set of 20 volumes in the Spokane Public Library and will see them Saturday. Curtis used mostly a whole plate camera in the field, processed the negatives there and did cyanotypes as proofs. In the Seattle studio his printers did platinums, albumen prints and gelatin silver prints as well as the orotones on glass. He created glass positives to go to the professional gravure printers for the making of the copper plates. Being so often in the field it is not likely that he did a whole lot of fine printing himself. Imogen Cunningham as a young woman worked in his studio as one of the printers.