Working on WHJ Webpage
After writing my last post I began to prepare to get my thesis up on this site. Today I scanned the text pages. I may even have the attribution list up this weekend. I need to scan images, the slowdown being in organizing them.
To become psyched to to all of this I did a Google image search on William Henry Jackson to get an idea of what is on the web. I found a wonderful website http://www.photochrom.com/ that is a gallery of Willliam Henry Jackson’s Photochrom post cards. There are histories of the Photochrom process, the Detroit Publilshing Company, and Williiam Henry Jackson, as well as images of what is available for sale.
Cathedral Rock Near San Diego
One of the images that is available to purchase is #53064 of Cathedral Rock Near San Diego.
The Original Version
It is the same image as Jackson’s 011107 San Diego Cal Cathedral Rock La Jolla, Copyright 1899 Detroit Publlishing Co. This is a sepia toned photo.
I’m including another version. This one I created on PhotoShop Elements. I removed the color creating a greytone so that it would look like a black & white.As you can see, each has it’s own feel and look.
Unfortunately you can’t go to the La Jolla Cove to rephotograph this image. Cathedral Rock is no longer there.