Looks like a lithograph or some related process -- adds a hazy, drawn
quality to photographs. Very common way of processing photos for
reprinting in news sources amongst countries with less developed
printing presses. The Soviet Union used this extensively throughout
the 1950s; I don't know if it was ever very popular in the United
States, and certainly hasn't been used there much in the 20th century.
At least, this is what I recall reading somewhere, a long time ago,
cobbled together with my own experience with old newspapers. I might
be wrong many points, but it resembles a lot of the Soviet-era
photographs I have seen, at the very least.
FF
On 8/7/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/5/06, stevertigo <vertigosteve(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:
What *is* it? A montage of several photographs and a hell of a lot of photoshop?
Steve
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