Fave Art  

As some members were very encouraging when I asked if it was thought to be OK to post my John Singer Sargent watercolors, I thought it might also be OK to start a thread for members' favorite art (including graphic design of course), as it relates to our architecture, spaces, furniture and accessories.
If so, I'd like to start with three of my favorite carbros.
Carbro- a contraction of carbon and bromide; they are based on pigments rather than dyes.
Carbros were made (1920s-60s) from three large format black and white negatives exposed simultaneously through RGB filters in special cameras. It took one of the few expert practitioners an average of 12 hours to make a single carbro, involving more than 90 steps with materials costing $125 USD in 1940- equivalent to almost $2000 USD today. So carbros were used almost exclusively for reproduction in periodicals, and if they got a perfect one on the first try they usually stopped there. Thus in many cases only one of each carbro ever existed.
I've been collecting carbros (and to a lesser extent the related dye transfers) since I was 15 years old. I don't mind admitting that that's half a century.
Below:
The first is a 1944 carbro of Sally and Tony DeMarco by Harry Warnecke, whose carbros were exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington DC this past spring (2012), 13X16 inches. This is the only example known to exist.
The second is a c. 1934 Vivex print (the British version of carbro) by the celebrated avant garde color photography pioneer Madame Yevonde (Cumbers). This is one of her straight fashion shots for reproduction in a magazine, 9.5X12 inches. This is the only example known to exist.
The third is a 1930 carbro of Ziegfeld Follies star Dorothy Flood by Alfred Cheney Johnston, 11X13 inches. Only two of these are known to exist.
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