Chapter 11BROMOIL PRINTS AND CHROMOSKEDASIC PAINTING

BROMOIL PRINTING

Gene Laughter

Bromoil is a photographic control process introduced by C. Welborne Piper in 1907, based on the theories of E. J. Wall. Bromoil was popular among the pictorial photographic salon exhibitors in the first half of the twentieth century. The process gradually lost favor following World War II, as supplies dwindled and as pictorialism gave way to the less romantic and more representational styles of photography.

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A bromoil print rendered in a photographic manner, which employed the use of both a brush and a brayer for inking. The silver in the original photograph ...

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