bromóleo

English translation: bromoil

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Spanish term or phrase:bromóleo
English translation:bromoil
Entered by: Wendy Gosselin

19:20 Feb 20, 2019
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Art/Literary - Photography/Imaging (& Graphic Arts)
Spanish term or phrase: bromóleo
This appears to be an old phtoography technique. I have found it on the internet in Spanish and Italian, but not English. The text is by an Argentine photography columnist. It was written in the 50s:

Alguien dijo una vez que todo es cuestión de moda y la fotografía, lo hemos visto muchas veces, no es una excepción. Hemos visto las modas del bromóleo y de la goma; hemos visto la moda del papel rugoso y la del papel liso; hemos visto la del grano fino y la del f. 64. Ahora nos llega la moda del grupo.

Thanks!
Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 11:45
bromoil
Explanation:
It's a variant on the oil print process.

"El bromóleo es un antiguo procedimiento fotográfico considerado como impresión noble por los fotógrafos pictorialistas, siendo muy utilizado en la primera mitad del siglo XX. Consiste en blanquear una copia fotográfica de bromuro de plata e impregnarla después con pigmentos al óleo.
Está basado en las impresiones al óleo que se emplearon en a mitad del siglo XIX; sin embargo uno de sus principales inconvenientes era que necesitaban negativos con las mismas dimensiones que la copia fotográfica final, ya que la impregnación del óleo era demasiado lenta para utilizar una ampliadora. En 1904 G.E.H. Rawlins publicó un artículo sobre este proceso en 1907 E.J. Wall describió de un modo teórico como se podrían obtener copias en bromuro de plata a partir de un negativo más pequeño y mediante un proceso de blanqueado y posterior tintado con óleo convertirlo en bromóleos. Poco después C. Welborne Piper llevó a la práctica esta teoría y nació el proceso del bromóleo."
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromóleo

"The oil print process is a photographic printmaking process that dates back to the mid 19th century. Oil prints are made on paper on which a thick gelatin layer has been sensitized to light using dichromate salts. After the paper is exposed to light through a negative, the gelatin emulsion is treated in such a way that highly exposed areas take up an oil-based paint, forming the photographic image.
A significant drawback to the oil print process is that it requires the negative to be the same size as the final print because the medium isn't sensitive enough to light to make use of an enlarger. A subtype of the oil print process, the bromoil process, was developed in the early 20th century to solve this problem."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_print_process

"History of the bromoil process
[...]
The bromoil process was invented in 1907 be Englishman C. Welbourne Piper on a suggestion from E.J. Wall. Wall had previously worked out the theory but never actually applied it. [...]
A bromoil print is simply a silver bromide or chlorobromide photograph from which the silver is removed and a greasy pigment substituted."
https://www.alternativephotography.com/history-of-the-bromoi...
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Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 15:45
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bromoil


Explanation:
It's a variant on the oil print process.

"El bromóleo es un antiguo procedimiento fotográfico considerado como impresión noble por los fotógrafos pictorialistas, siendo muy utilizado en la primera mitad del siglo XX. Consiste en blanquear una copia fotográfica de bromuro de plata e impregnarla después con pigmentos al óleo.
Está basado en las impresiones al óleo que se emplearon en a mitad del siglo XIX; sin embargo uno de sus principales inconvenientes era que necesitaban negativos con las mismas dimensiones que la copia fotográfica final, ya que la impregnación del óleo era demasiado lenta para utilizar una ampliadora. En 1904 G.E.H. Rawlins publicó un artículo sobre este proceso en 1907 E.J. Wall describió de un modo teórico como se podrían obtener copias en bromuro de plata a partir de un negativo más pequeño y mediante un proceso de blanqueado y posterior tintado con óleo convertirlo en bromóleos. Poco después C. Welborne Piper llevó a la práctica esta teoría y nació el proceso del bromóleo."
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromóleo

"The oil print process is a photographic printmaking process that dates back to the mid 19th century. Oil prints are made on paper on which a thick gelatin layer has been sensitized to light using dichromate salts. After the paper is exposed to light through a negative, the gelatin emulsion is treated in such a way that highly exposed areas take up an oil-based paint, forming the photographic image.
A significant drawback to the oil print process is that it requires the negative to be the same size as the final print because the medium isn't sensitive enough to light to make use of an enlarger. A subtype of the oil print process, the bromoil process, was developed in the early 20th century to solve this problem."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_print_process

"History of the bromoil process
[...]
The bromoil process was invented in 1907 be Englishman C. Welbourne Piper on a suggestion from E.J. Wall. Wall had previously worked out the theory but never actually applied it. [...]
A bromoil print is simply a silver bromide or chlorobromide photograph from which the silver is removed and a greasy pigment substituted."
https://www.alternativephotography.com/history-of-the-bromoi...

Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 15:45
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 24
Grading comment
Perfect!! Thanks

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