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Celebrated for their absolute permanence and deep, rich blacks. Carbon printing used pigmented gelatin to create a tactile, three-dimensional image surface that remains as vivid today as the day it was made.

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1Improving content on photographic techniques
Introduction
2Carbon prints
3Adolphe Braun - A Continental Printing Establishment (1874)
Photographers
4John Thomson: Foochow and the River Min (1870-1871)
5Adolphe Braun: Carbon prints

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