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Early Processes
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About
Photography - Daguerre
This site includes brief details of
Daguerre's discovery of his Daguerreotype process.
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Alternative Photographic Processes
The
alternative photography
web site covers a wide range of early processes, and has some useful links to
other web sites. Here is a page on the alternative photography web site
that explains and illustrates how to make paper for
albumen prints, the most
popular type of print from around 1860 to the 1890s.
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Alternative
Photographic Processes - Bostick & Sullivan ******
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This site seems to be no longer available
from the link above.
Please
email me and pass on the current address
for this site, if you know it.
Thank you.
See Bostick &
Sullivan and Bostick &
Sullivan - Technical Page
This site by Dick Sullivan of Santa Fe, New Mexico gives advice on many of the old photographic processes, and
sells books, chemicals and alternative process kits.
It also has a forum for
exchanging views on using early photographic processes4.
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Alternative Photographic Processes -
Edwardo Aites
Eduardo Aites, now living in Seattle,
Washington USA has worked with:
- Laser holography
- Etching
- Aquatint printmaking
- Cyanotypes
- Polaroid image transfer
- Van Dyke and Kallitype prints
His
web
site includes examples of his work together with technical information
and advice on the
Cyanotype,
Polaroid image transfer,
Van Dyke and
Kallitype processes. |
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Alternative Photographic Processes - Harry's Pro
Shop
This
site includes lots of information for anybody interested in alternative
photographic processes - Ambrotype, Autochrome, Bromoil, Calotype, Chrysotype, Cyanotype,
Daguerreotype, Ferrotype, Gum Bichromate, etc.
This site has links to pages on
alternative photographic processes written by David Leggatt and others.
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Alternative
Photographic Processes - William A Foster ******
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This site seems to be no longer available
from the link above.
Please
email me and pass on the current address
for this site, if you know it.
Thank you.
This
site shows the work of
William A
Foster ARPS FRSA, a retired professional photographer and lecturer.
He has been using pigment printing processes to produce pictorial prints for
over fifty years. The site includes examples of:
- Bromoil and Oil Pigment (from 1953)
- Carbon Transfer
- Fresson (1950s)
- Kallitype
- Palladium
- Gum Bichromate (from 1948), with a
clear description of the process
- Gum Kallitype
- Gum Palladium
- Gum Cyanotype
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7.
Alternative
Processing International Symposium (APIS) 2004
This Symposium is held in alternate years in the USA
and the UK.
APIS 2004, it is to be held in Dunfermline, about 15 miles to the
north-west of Edinburgh, on 18 to 19 September 2004.
Terry King's
Hand-on-Pictures web site gives full details of the programme and
booking arrangements for the event.
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Australia
& New Zealand Photographic History -
Marcel Safie
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This site seems to be no longer available
from the link above.
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for this site, if you know it.
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Autochrome Process ******
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This site seems to be no longer available
from the link above.
Please
email me and pass on the current address
for this site, if you know it.
Thank you.
This bway.net site gives an explanation of the
Autochrome process, with details from the Lumiere Brothers' patent for
this process. The Autochrome process was the first process to be
made generally available for colour photography.
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Carbon Printing
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The Rocky Mountain Photographers' Forum
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* This link seems to be no longer active.
Does anybody know if it has moved to a new address?
Kevin Sullivan of
Bostick &
Sullivan
recommends this forum as being the most active for people
wishing to do their own
carbon
printing.
The Bostick & Sullivan web site includes
some details of
carbon
coating techniques.
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11.
Centre for Alternative and Historic Processes
This is a new
web site (2005) from the Centre
for Alternative and Historic Processes. The web site currently lists the workshops on offer from CFAAHP's
studio in Broadway, New York.
Subjects covered b y the
workshops include calotype printing, albumen printing, wet plate collodion,
ambrotypes, tintypes, glass negatives, platinum, palladium and gum Over
platinum printing.
It is planned to add more sections to the
web site to cover 2Exhibitions" and "Artists Talk"
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12.
Creative
Monochrome
Some people have asked where
chemicals for the older photographic processes might be purchased.
I suggest the Creative Monochrome site below. Creative Monochrome
publish:
- Mono
- Photo Art
International
- Digital Photo Art
- Best of Friends
To read more about
Alternative Process Kits and chemicals, click on the link below, then
select 'cm direct' at the foot of the screen, then 'chemicals'.
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Diorama in Great Britain in the 1820s
- R Derek Wood
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Hands on Pictures
For comments and advice from one of the photographers working
with the Gum Bichromate process, and to see some examples of this work, I
suggest having a look at this site by Terry King.
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16.
History of Photography - Dr
R Leggat
A comprehensive site on
the history of photography.
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17.
Jerome and Gratispool
This
web site gives some interesting background details on the Jerome
chain of studios in Britain and their use of the Gratispool paper
negatives (retouched where necessary with a HB pencil) |
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18. Large
Format Photography
This site has a wealth of news/information
about large format photography. There are many useful
links on the site
to other web sites on photography.
There is also a photograph of a camera that
really can be described as
large format - well worth a look. |
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19. Photo
Net - early photography forum*
* This link seems to be no longer active.
Does anybody know if it has moved to a new address?
I have found this site useful in
providing answers to some obscure questions on early photography.
Have a look to see if your question has already been asked.
If not, try leaving your question on the
forum and see if anybody provides an answer. |
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20. Picto
Benelux
The
Picto
Benelux web site was created in 2005 by Jacques Kevers to allow
information on early photographic processes to be collected and exchanged
between enthusiasts.
This web site will offer workshops and will
encourage the promotion of work using early processes , oil prints,
bromoil, etc., through exhibitions, web galleries and travelling portfolios.
The site is in two parts:
- the public part is available to all.
It gives details of early processes
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private part is available for a modest annual subscription. It
gives access to more detailed discussion pages. |
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Polyfotos
Polyfotos were popular in the
1950s - 48 different small photos, often of children,
were contact printed onto a single sheet, then the best would be chosen to be
enlarged.
This
Science & Society web site has examples of Polyfotos.
This is the web site that holds the picture library of The Science Museum,
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Printing-out
Paper - supplies*
* This link seems to be no longer active.
Does anybody know if it has moved to a new address?
Nigel Dear tells me that he can supply Printing-Out Paper,
for anybody wishing to use the 'historically accurate medium from the 1890s to
the 1920s for making prints from glass negatives'. He also supplies
other materials for early photographic processes.
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Robert MacPherson
This is a Canadian web site WebNet - un monde de solutions!
(which has text in both French and English).
It reports the finding of an 1863 photograph album by Robert MacPherson,
containing 132 of his photographs of the Vatican Sculptures in Rome.
This site also has a list of other web
sites that contain references to Robert MacPherson.
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Stereographica
This
Stereographica site is the work of
Brian and Page Ginns of New York.
It includes an online auction, split into many categories
relating to early photography including cameras, stereoscopes,
stereo views, cabinet cards, cartes de visite, Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes
, Autochromes, optical toys, etc.
Currently [March2004]
there appear to be no Edinburgh items on offer in the auction, but perhaps
there will be some in the future.
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25.
Tintype Photos - Gem and Carte de Visite
NEW
For further information on Gem and Carte de Visite tintype photos,
please see the
web site of Photo Historian, Marcel Safier, Holland Park,
Queensland, Australia.
This web site gives a brief description of the tintype and its
origin. It refers to tintype albums and lists many studios
producing tintypes in the UK, USA, Australia and New Zealand.
Sources of information are given and there are links to other
relevant web sites.
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26.
A
Victorian Timeline -
Dr J M Cros
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* This link seems to be no longer active.
Does anybody know if it has moved to a new address?
A useful timeline of
photographic dates from 1515 to 1900.
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27.
Wet Collodion
Mark Osterman has been experimenting with the collodion
process since 1987. From a skylight studio at his home, working with
his wife, he produces collodion negatives and ambrotypes.
Mark's
collodion web site
gives details of his research, exhibitions, publications and workshops. |
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Wet Collodion - Frederick Scott Archer
Seán MacKenna who lives and works in London is a
practicing wet collodion photographer, also poet and tragedian. He
has constructed
a
series of web pages to honour the memory of Frederick Scott Archer.
These pages include:
- the text of Archer's first
publication in 'The Chemist, 1851'
- Archer's manual of 1854, 'The Collodion Process on Glass'
Seán's
web pages and links from these pages also include:
- a photograph of Frederick Scott Archer.
- an interesting short biography of Archer.
- a photograph
of Archer's unmarked grave.
- an example of Archer's photography,
c.1857.
- a modern photograph of the same location,
2001.
- examples of Seán MacKenna's collodion photography.
- details of cameras used by Seán for his collodion work.
- a link to a collodion forum web site.
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29.
Woodburytype Resource Site
This site gives information on the
Woodburytype process and
equipment. |
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30.
Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day
NEW
The
www.pinholeday.org
web site
is devoted to pinhole
photography. This site displays images taken around the world on
'Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day'.
In 2007, the
day is to be Sunday April 29, 2007. |