A glass negative can be used to make 1000’s of reproductions called…
A salted paper prints
B c-prints
C contact prints
D enlargements
The correct answer and explanation is:
Correct Answer: C. Contact prints
A glass negative can be used to make thousands of reproductions called contact prints. This method involves placing the glass negative directly onto photographic paper and exposing it to light. The result is a print that is the same size as the negative. This technique was especially common in the 19th and early 20th centuries when glass plates were used as photographic negatives.
The name “contact print” comes from the fact that the negative and the paper are in direct contact during the exposure. Because the negative contains all the details of the original image, the contact print replicates them with great accuracy. Since the image is produced by light passing through the glass negative and onto the paper, the quality of the print is very high. Contact printing was often used in early photography processes like albumen printing or silver gelatin printing.
Glass negatives are durable and can be reused to produce many prints. As long as the glass negative remains undamaged, it can be used to make thousands of identical contact prints. This ability made them especially valuable for commercial and archival photography. Museums, libraries, and historical archives often rely on such negatives for accurate reproductions of photographs.
Other choices in the question are not the most accurate. Salted paper prints were an early form of photographic print but do not specifically describe what results from using a glass negative. C-prints refer to color photographic prints, typically from color negatives or slides. Enlargements involve making a larger version of the image, usually using an enlarger, not through direct contact.
Therefore, contact prints is the correct term for high-quality reproductions made from a glass negative.