The history of anthotypes
An excerpt from Anthotypes – Explore the darkroom in your garden and make photographs using plants. How the anthotype was discovered.
history of photography
A Brief History of Carbon Printing
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
Photolithography – a history and its process
Angela Young describes the background of photolithography and shows, step by step how to make a print.
History of the colloidon process
A history Wetplate collodion process and the different products produced: Ambrotypes, Ferrotypes and the Negative process.
Seizing the Light: A History of Photography
Bookreview for Robert Hirsch’s book Seizing the light by Dean Brierly
