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For an 1896 picture of a canoe in glass-smooth water, Stieglitz made a velvet-smooth platinum print.
"There was another one, a palladium platinum print, coming up for sale at Christie's," Mr. Buhl said.
Two photographs -- one modern platinum print, one vintage -- made from the same negative show how tantalizingly ambiguous distinctions like modern and vintage can be.
One of the Allens' best-known images is "Constance," an 1897 platinum print of a woman standing by an open window.
His 1881 platinum print of a gently smiling village girl sitting on a log near the beached hull of a boat displays a strikingly unsentimental humanist sensibility.
On Monday and Tuesday, Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg will conduct its first sale of photography, with 184 lots, including Paul Outerbridge Jr.'s "Saltine Box," a rare 1922 vintage platinum print, and Paul Strand's "Mullein, Maine," a 1927 vintage platinum print of the roadside weed mullein that he snapped while visiting on Georgetown Island.
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Platinum Prints, by Irving Penn (Yale; $50).
Cunningham was familiar with platinum printing.
"Platinum printing is still around, despite the convenience of silver printing," he said.
Finally, I always have a book of Irving Penn's photographs close to hand ("Platinum Prints").
Mr. Partridge, also a photographer, made the show's platinum prints.
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