An app for that… while a darkroom survives
Nancy Breslin continues Peter J. Blackburn’s discussion on the disappearance of the traditional darkroom.
Nancy Breslin continues Peter J. Blackburn’s discussion on the disappearance of the traditional darkroom.
European photographers
From: UK, Spain and France.
Shows: Cyanotype rex, Cyanotypes, Gum bichromates, Gum tricolor, Photopolymer gravures, Polaroid image transfers, POP – Print out paper, Temperaprints, Wet plate collodions.
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Produces photographic books and downloads, as well as organising exhibitions of prints using the following wet-processes: new chrysotype, platinotype, platinum/palladium, argyrotype, new cyanotype, gum bichromate, salt, casein and anthotype.
Marco Boeringa, though not himself a platinum & palladium printer yet, researches the longevity of the print.
From: Newark, Delaware, USA
Shows: Cyanotypes, Gum over cyanotype and Pinholes
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Dusan and his colleagues at the Getty institute are taking a very much closer look at alternative photographic processes – a molecular-level-look, that may even change history.
David Hoptman argues for using the process to get "hands on" photography work done, ideally combined with Photoshop.
Mike Ware tests palladium, platinum, platinum/palladium, new cyanotype, new chrysotype and argyrotype printing on Weston Diploma Parchment.
Cody Goddard discovered a process to use the throwaway side of 669 film to make an additional print.
Melissa Jolley tells us how she combines digital artwork with historic photographic processes.
Anne Storm van Leeuwen outlines a very simpliflied process of making paper. An introduction the old craft of papermaking.
The following method of printing in platinum, palladium, or a mixture of both metals, has been evolved to overcome the difficulties and disadvantages of the traditional platinotype.
These are some of the ‘forgotten’ processes. By that we mean that no one is working and producing new images in this process – at least we haven’t found anyone. But we would be very happy to be proven wrong!
Argyrotype is a user-friendly iron-based silver printing process that produces brown images on plain paper. It is derived from the Argentotype, Kallitype, and Vandyke processes of the 19th Century, but has greater simplicity, improved image stability, and longer sensitizer shelf-life.
From: Pennsylvania, USA.
Shows: Cyanotypes, Dry & wet plates, Infrareds, Lumen, Pl/pd, Polaroid.
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The equipment, materials and handling procedures you will need for the three iron-based processes – new cyanotype, argyrotype and platino-palladiotype.
Artists and photographers share their experience with photographic papers, see the results
Article about the History of Alternative photographic processes – by Anita Chernewski, Spike MacGee and others.
The World Journal of Post-Factory Photography by Judy Seigel. A free download of issue 1.