René Pauli | |
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Born | 1935 |
Died | 1999 |
Known for | Photography and tri-color carbon prints |
René Pauli (1935–1999) was a Swiss-American artist known for his original photographs and tri-color carbon print making process. [1] His tri-color carbon prints of original nature photographs were sold in several U.S. photography galleries, [2] featured by an Eastman Kodak exhibition and by the Sierra Club and are included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, [3] the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, [4] and the Polk Museum of Art. [5] René revived and perfected the carbon printing process independently in a small apartment in San Francisco by engineering all hand built machines, even creating his own paper mats. His tri-color carbon prints were noted for their unmatched color, quality and detail, bas-relief effect, and archival permanence, estimated to last virtually unchanged for many hundreds of years. [6] [7]