#historic processes

[russellmoreton]

Twilight Abstraction : Liminal Zone. by Russell Moreton

[russellmoreton]

Twilight Abstraction : Liminal Zone. by Russell Moreton

[levas]

Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

[russellmoreton]

Twilight Abstraction : Liminal Zone. on Flickr.

[sofielh]

In my search for information about the dry collodion process I stumbled upon this book "The Silver Sunbeam" by Joseph H. Ladd from 1864. There are not only recipes for making collodion negatives, but also albumen and even combinations of the two. Keep in mind though, that dry plates never really became a success before the gelatine plates where invented. Typically because the light sensitivity was not very good.

The language is quite entertaining, just read this little outtake:

"The inconvenience, however, (using wet plate processes) of dragging along over mountain and valley, or of stowing away on steamer or on the cars, a complete miniature operating gallery, has suggested the idea of superseding all this trouble by the discovery of a dry process. "

[sofielh]

At Lacock Abbey in England the Fox Talbot Museum offers workshops about historic photographic processes. It seems that you will not only learn the theory about the technique but also actually get to produce photographs yourself. 

Fun fact for photo history newbies: Fox Talbot was one of the pioneers of photography and one of the first photographs taken was through a window at Lacock Abbey in 1835, so the workshops are basically taking place in the birthplace of photography. Which I think gives it an extra dimension to the workshop.

[levas]

The Wet Plate Collodion Process (by quinnjacobson

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