VIS 60 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lewis Hine, Calotype, Albumen Print
Document Summary
Although millions of these portraits were produced, this uncut sheet from disderis archive is a rare illustration of the eight in one technique, of second empire posing, and of the public and private roles of the carte-de-visite. Types of photographic processes: calotype, albumen print, wet collodion, carbon print, louis docous du haron patents the basic principles of most of the practical color photography processes subsequently developed, cyanotype, contact printing process. The image is created by ferrous cyanide, which imparts a blue tone to the paper. Used to create the architectural blueprint and is still used for that purpose today. Film negative: capturing an image with light-sensitive silver salts on a flexible strip, gelatin silver print. Cyanotype: trained as a botanist, anna atkins, developed an interest in photography as a means of recording botanical specimens for a scientific reference book. Made people talk and get into the kind of character that he wanted to photograph.
