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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 2745818, member: 8267&quot;]Invaluable.com lists many Eisenstaedt prints:&nbsp; <a href="https://www.invaluable.com/artist/eisenstaedt-alfred-8iap5qre0k/sold-at-auction-prices/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.invaluable.com/artist/eisenstaedt-alfred-8iap5qre0k/sold-at-auction-prices/" rel="nofollow">https://www.invaluable.com/artist/eisenstaedt-alfred-8iap5qre0k/sold-at-auction-prices/</a></p><p>While you can&#039;t see the prices realized without a membership, you can see the descriptions of his photographic technique. He made gelatin silver prints, and it looks like they typically included stamps for his studio and other identifying markings.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would not expect to see such cracking on a gelatin print, unless it was exposed to serious fluctuations in relative humidity. It may also have been rolled up for a long time, as [USER=56]@moreotherstuff[/USER] suggests. Is the cracking evenly distributed over the whole image, or is it more noticeable in the darker areas?</p><p><br /></p><p>Another possibility is that it is a carbon print, which is a different method of reproducing images. It utilizes carbon pigment to form the image (no silver), in a layer of gelatin that hardens in thinner or thicker layers depending on how much light it is exposed to through the negative. &quot;Carbon images will exhibit little to no fading or yellowing. Carbon black is among the most light stable of pigments. Darker areas of the image <u>may develop large cracks</u>, where the gelatin layer is thickest.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://psap.library.illinois.edu/collection-id-guide/photoprint#silvergelprint" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://psap.library.illinois.edu/collection-id-guide/photoprint#silvergelprint" rel="nofollow">https://psap.library.illinois.edu/collection-id-guide/photoprint#silvergelprint</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Carbon prints were made up until the 1950s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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