{"id":31218,"date":"2025-04-14T01:03:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T05:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=31218"},"modified":"2025-04-12T15:19:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T19:19:30","slug":"a-secret-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-secret-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"a secret revealed &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31220\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cotton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31220\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31220\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cotton-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a means to assist the press if the paper and card separate &#8211; use a bit of cotton!<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. A few days ago I did a<a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/sticking-out-from-the-masses\/\"> post on a small press<\/a> for photographs (issue 23-1). It was accompanied by the following from Robert \u00a0Wilson, &#8220;During the long period that cartes de visite and cabinet prints were in vogue many variations of the cameo portrait were offered as an elegant form of photographic art.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">&#8220;The simplest technique required only\u00a0a printed mat surrounding the central\u00a0vignetted image in an oval shape or in a\u00a0rectangle with rounded corners. The effect\u00a0achieved its true cameo style when the surface of the print was made slightly convex\u00a0by means of a die and press, causing the\u00a0central area to bulge forth in low profile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">&#8220;With most prints the surface remained\u00a0firmly attached to its supporting card stock, but others may be found soft and pliable.\u00a0A recent find has revealed the secret as\u00a0the print began to peel away from its support. There in the inner pocket was a thin\u00a0swatch of fibrous cotton, 2 1\/2 inches in\u00a0length, with roughly torn edges and even\u00a0included the odd cotton seed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. A few days ago I did a post on a small press for photographs (issue 23-1). It was accompanied by the following from Robert \u00a0Wilson, &#8220;During the long period that cartes de visite and cabinet prints were in vogue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-secret-revealed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[2017,1184,243,613,1014],"class_list":["post-31218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-article","tag-cabinet-card","tag-cdv","tag-photo","tag-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31218"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31224,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31218\/revisions\/31224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}