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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Figure I

Jan Van Leeuwen, Cyanotype self portrait

Figure II

Mark Sink, Lillies

Figure III

John Herschel, Lady with harp

Figure IV - awaiting permission

Lee Miller, Untitled

Figure V

Malin Hylén, Outline of rope

Figure VI

Patrick Hilferty

Vesselfire: Cyanotype on wood

Figure VII

Malin Hylén, Floating glasses

Figure VIII

Robert Schaefer, Berlin Blau

Figure IXa

Still from Retouched photography sting

Figure IXb

Still from Unretouched photography sting

Figure IXc

Still from Cyanotype sting

Figure Xa

Still from Retouched photography sting

Figure Xb

Still from Unretouched photography sting

Figure Xc

Still from Cyanotype sting

Figure XIa

Still from Retouched photography sting

Figure XIb

Still from Unretouched photography sting

Figure XIc

Still from Cyanotype sting

Figure XII

Malin Hylén, Analysing chart

BIBLIOGRAPHY / RESEARCH RESOURCES

>> Galleries and exhibitions

Flower show, Zelda Cheatle gallery, 99 Mount Street, London, W1. Cyanotypes by Jill Staples and Joy Gregory, 30th August 1999

The Print Room at the Photographer's Gallery, Newport Street, London, WC1. Hold some of Lee Miller's prints.

Silver and Syrup exhibition, Canon photography exhibition room, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7

>> Miscellaneous sources, associations and libraries

John Benjafield, Historic Impressions, 176 Portobello Road, W1. Personal conversation on the 30th of October 1999. Deals in historical prints, probably the only one in London to stock cyanotypes.

Francis Hodgson (Photography Manager), Photonica Europe Limited (photographic library), 10 Regents Wharf, All Saints Street, London, N1 9RL, 020 - 7278 4117 francis.hodgson@photonica.co.uk

Steve Macleod, Metro Art (Part of Metro Imaging), Basement, 31 Great Sutton Street, London, EC1V 0DX, 020 - 7865 0000 Interview on Friday the 5th of March 1999, 10-11am.

Anthony Penrose, Lee Miller Archives, Farley Farmhouse, Muddles Green, Chiddingly, East Sussex, BN8 6HW. 01825 - 872691. archives@leemiller.co.uk http://www.leemiller.co.uk Was in contact with Antony Penrose tony@pengroup.demon.co.uk about solarisation. Permission given for quoting.

>> Books

Adobe Systems incorporated (1997) Adobe Photoshop 5.0 user manual

Jan Arnow (1982) Handbook of Alternative Photographic Processes, Van Nostrand Reinhold

Anna Atkins (1985) Sun Gardens - Victorian photograms, Phaidon Press Ltd Reproduction of the first book published using cyanotypes.

Brian Coe and Mark Haworth-Booth (1983) A guide to early photographic processes, Victoria & Albert Museum

William Crawford (1979) The keepers of light - A history & working guide to early photographic processes, Morgan & Morgan

David Daye (1998) Special effects photography, Rotovision SA

Richard Farber (1998) Historic Photographic Processes - A Guide to Creating Handmade Photographic Images, Allworth Press

Peter Fredrick (1980) Creative sunprinting - early photographic printing processes rediscovered, Focal press Ltd

Helmut Gernsheim (1961) Creative Photography - Aesthetic trends 1839-1960, Dover Publications

Ron Graham and Virginia Bolton (1990) Focus on photography, Hodder & Soughton

Barbara Hewitt (1995) Blueprints on fabric: innovative uses for cyanotype, Interweave press. Barbara Hewitt, 1400-A Marsten Road, Burlingame, CA 94010 cyanoprint@aol.com www.blueprintables.com Permission given for quoting.

Life library of photography (1970) Light and film, Time Inc.

Life library of photography (1976) The print, Time Inc.

Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations (1996), Oxford University Press

Kent Wade (1978) Alternative photographic processes, Morgan&Morgan

Mike Ware (1999) Cyanotype: the history, science and art of photographic printing in Prussian blue, the Science Museum and the National Museum of Photography Film and Television

>> Journals

Agfa, Negative density range

http://www.agfaphoto.com/ library/basics/basic04.html

Tafi Brown, Blueprints > Buildings > Quilts, Surface Design Journal vol. 19 no. 3 Spring 1995 (US textile artist discusses work which incorporates cyanotypes and photograms.)

Tim Daly, A modern vintage, British Journal of Photography 27.01.99 Tim Daly explains how to recreate early photographic printing processes in Photoshop.

Martin Evening, Digital Futures, British Journal of Photography 09.05.98

Hope Kingsley, Silverprint Catalogue 1997-1998, Silverprint Ltd, 12 Valentine Place, London, SE1 8QH. 0171 - 620 0844

Michael Maunder, Mad dogs and Englishmen - Insight into sunlight, its content, its angle and its effect on photography, AG+ photographic, Timothy Benn publishing, volume 13

Stefan Nilsson, Foto har inget med scanning att göra (Photography has nothing to do with scanning), Nerikes Allehanda, Sweden, Saturday 7 November 1998

Jon Tarrant, Something special - five out of the ordinary methods of creating photographic images, Hotshoe International, Sept/Oct 1998 issue 98

Mike Ware, A new blueprint for cyanotypes, AG+ photographic, Timothy Benn publishing, volume 7 Article about the new cyanotype process.

>> Photographers and artists

The very helpful photographers that I have been in contact with, discussing processes and values, are marked with *, the other ones I used their work as a reference. Addresses correct at time of research.

Kimberly Austin

Agustin Baron

*Eric Boutilier-Brown

Jan-Olov Bovin

*Larry Bullis

Anne Deniau

John Dugdale

*Jean Eger

Robert Farber

*Kenneth Geiger

*Patrick Hilferty

Risa Horowitz

*Terry King

*Jan van Leeuwen

*James Luciana

*Ann McDowell

Susan Moran

*Wim van Oest

*Jerry Orabona

Sheila Pepe

Glen Rogers Perotto

Nancy Rosing-St.Paul

*Jack R. Rupert

*Robert Schaefer

*Judy Seigel

Mary K. Shisler

*Mark Sink

Joe Smigiel

Jeff Stanford

Per Volledal

*Mike Ware

*Wendy Wilson

 

 

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