Category: Anthotypes

A fun and easy way to make images using the juice from fruits, plants, flowers, and vegetables as both sensitizer and pigment! Practiced by Sir William Herschel beginning in the 1840’s, this method is very suited to photograms. Although anthotype prints are novel and unique, permanence of the image depends upon your choice of organic extract.

Anthotypes: How different paper effects the emulsion color

Heather Siple experiments with anthotypes to find out how different types of paper base affects the color of the plant emulsion.

Heather Siple

North American photographers – East & East Coast
From: Wilmington, Delaware, USA.
Shows: Anthotypes and Silver gelatins (peepholes).
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Anthotypes – step by step instructions to making a print using plants

It is possible to print photographs using nothing but juice extracted from the petals of flowers, the peel from fruits and pigments from plants. We’ll show you how.

Anthotypes

It is possible to print photographs using nothing but juice extracted from the petals of flowers, the peel from fruits and pigments from plants. This book will show you how it is done, and expand your creative horizons with plenty of examples from artists working with anthotypes today.