After our very successful event with 90+ artists sending in cyanotypes to honour Anna Atkins, the Anna Atkins tribute calendar is now available. Good news #1: We have selected the winners of our Anna Atkins tribute event. The jury had a really tough time selecting ONLY 12 cyanotypes since there were 90+ entries and many many were very good. The 12 artists that will be featured in the calendar are: … Read more
In 1843 Anna Atkins published the first book of photography made using the cyanotype process called British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions. If you are a cyanotyper, you may also be interested in our tribute event to this true pioneer. Anna Children (maiden name of Anna Atkins) is born 16th of March 1799 in Tonbridge, Kent, UK, the daughter of John George Children (1777-1852) and Hester Anne Holwell (1777-1799). The house of … Read more
The Photographer’s Friend Almanac and American Year Book of Photography for 1872 contains recipes and information about cyanotypes, gelatine silver processes as well as a very interesting yellow pages section. Read it for free. This Photographer’s Friend Almanac was kindly donated to us by David Kempton scanned in and shared here for all of you to enjoy! David was gifted the book in the 1970s by a friend who is … Read more
An excerpt from Anthotypes – Explore the darkroom in your garden and make photographs using plants. How the anthotype was discovered.
A brief history of the cyanotype process invented by Sir John Herschel
An ironic history of alternative photographic processes written by Dr Mike Ware
Brian Young tells the fascinating story of salt prints and cyanotypes – photographic printing processes from the 19th Century.
An excerpt from The Carbon Print illustrating Ponton’s Discovery to the Alternative Process Revival. Writer / Sandy King and John Lockhart Photography / Alphonse-Louis Poitevin, Thomas Annan, Richard Miller, Julia Margaret Cameron, Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, Adolphe Braun The early interest in the carbon process grew out of the public concern with the major flaw of early salted paper prints – their tendency to fade. A. M. Marton’s 1905 manual A … Read more
20th November is the birth anniversary of a very important yet hardly known figure in the history of photography. The Scottish inventor Mungo Ponton.
Jean-Claude Mougin shares his ambitious treatise on iron salts and also shows how to make ferric oxolate.
Angela Young describes the background of photolithography and shows, step by step how to make a print.
Calotypy for the 21st Century; Pt1: Dr Hugh Diamond’s Single Solution Process: Christopher Wright gives us a history of Calotypes and explains the process.
An excerpt from “What’s wrong with Daguerre?” by Hans Rooseboom.
The history of the bromoil process, invented in 1907 be Englishman C. Welbourne Piper on a suggestion from E.J. Wall. Written by David Lewis
A list of photographic words and their origin. The article is a work in progress and any historians out there with their finger on the facts should feel free to add to this list.
Eric Neilsen gives us a brief history of Platinum Palladium Printing and explains how it has branched out.
A history Wetplate collodion process and the different products produced: Ambrotypes, Ferrotypes and the Negative process.
Article about the History of Alternative photographic processes – by Anita Chernewski, Spike MacGee and others.
