#salt print

[dame-de-pique]

Parochiekerk in Melbury Bubb, Dorset, 1850-1855

[victoriantomodern]

William Henry Fox Talbot, "Bust of Patroclus", 1841, salt print from calotype negative. From The Pencil of Nature.

[daguerreotyping]

Salt print copy from a daguerreotype of Gen. George Crook, Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, and Lt. John Nugen at West Point, c. 1850

[winterjourney]

30.January 2023 - From my Collection: ca.1850

This is probably a salted paper or calotype photograph made using processes invented by William Henry Fox Talbot ca.1840. What attracted me to it are the streaks indicating the brushed-on sensitizer. The “handmade-ness” of this photograph is splendid.

[kuutamosonaatti]

Dan Estabrook, from at sea series

[cariadus]

Upper Ddwli, Neath Valley Salt print using a technique from the 1830s

[kimevans]

[chubachus]

Portrait of two unidentified women in Egypt taken by German photographer Ernest Benecke, 1852.

Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art.