Originally Posted by
Drew Wiley
He had different styles and used different papers over his career. Merg Ross, of this forum, would probably know. Lots of his earlier work was conspicuously warm-toned.
Later things took on that Azo and amidol f/64-ish cold tone look, but I don't know the specifics. I have seen a lot of his prints up close, and his full range of textual content isn't all that hard to replicate. One doesn't typically notice the lack of detail in the shadows in little contact prints anyway. He son, Brett, of course, exploited bold blank blacks for graphic effect in actual enlargements - an entirely different style.
Gold toner could lend an annoying overtly bluish-black to Azo images. I've never seen that effect in EW prints. And I wonder if he could even afford gold toner. I routinely use it, but at much greater dilution than most of the formulas call for, which seem to waste gold chloride like crazy.
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