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photo Felice Beato Until the mid-20th century, the majority of photography was monochrome (black and white), as was first exemplified ...
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An ambrotype is a weak negative image on glass rendered positive by the addition of a dark background. Frederick Scott Archer, an Engl...
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!click the title! The mid-nineteenth century saw the simultaneous birth of couture, photography, and modern art. For women of the Italia...
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Silver is a common component of most historical photographic processes. Silver mirroring is a natural deterioration, inherent within silver-...
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Daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and early tintypes were usually sold in small folding cases. The cases were designed to keep the fragile surfaces...
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Thursday 31 March 2011
and 8 drops.
From the mid to late 19th, through to the early 20th century one of the popular photographic printing processes, even predating silver gelatine, was the platinum print. As the price of platinum soared during WWI and WW2 the process drifted out of practice. Then beginning in the 1970’s creating platinum prints using the traditional methods was re-established by a small number of specialists. Today it remains consigned to the relative obscurity of an “alternative process”. I think 2 factors contribute to keeping platinum printing at its current level of popularity. Compared to inkjet (or even traditional darkroom prints) a platinum print is relatively expensive. A 25ml bottle of platinum solution runs about $200. I estimate that exposing an 8x10 negative and printing on 11x14 paper runs about $12 - $13.
Platinum/Palladium Printing produces a beautiful cool tone or warm tone image on fine watercolor paper or 100% cotton rag printing paper. The artist uses a brush or coating rod to apply a light sensitive emulsion to the paper, then a contact negative is exposed under intense ultraviolet light.
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historical photography,
laboratorio,
LACOCK,
ME,
PLATINUM print,
workshop