#talbotype

[chubachus]

Portrait of a young woman identified as Miss Jeanne taken by Belgian photographer Louis Pierre Theophile Dubois de Nehaut, c. 1854-1856.

Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[magdawanat]

“Tiulowa sukienka” – Ilustracja do “Córki rzeźbiarza” Tove Jansson | 2018 Illustration | Sculptor’s Daughter (Tribute to Tove Jansson)

[notesonphotography]

Frederick Langenheim Looking at Talbotypes, 

about 1849 - 1851

William Langenheim  

“The first photograph a man contemplated [...] must have seemed to him to resemble exactly certain paintings; [...] he knew, however, that he was nose-to-nose with a mutant; [...] his consciousness posited the object encountered outside of any analogy, like the ectoplasm of “what-had-been”: neither image nor reality, a new being, really: a reality one can no longer touch.”

Camera Lucida

Roland Barthes

[chubachus]

Calotype portrait of a group having tea at Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire, England, August 17, 1843. By William Henry Fox Talbot.

Source.

[serpent-kiss-blog]

Antoine Claudet's Calotype of a woman 1844. The Calotype was also called the Talbotype by it's inventor William Talbot.

[serpent-kiss-blog]

Calotype aka Talbotype "Hugh Lyon Playfair with Cello" Photographer: Hugh Lyon Playfair 1786-1861

[livfritz1007-blog]

[Above is an example of Dan Estabrook's Calotypes and an example of his commercial/editorial work]

So for my Alternative Process class I was told you choose one Alt Process photographer and tell why I liked their work. I flipped through the book I was told to get and found Dan Estabrook. What first caught my eye was that the picture was an oval and I had talking in class about maybe making my photo circular.

Dan Estabrook makes Calotypes, or Talbotype, with salted paper, which was first introduced by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1840. This technique is done by having a reflected image impressed onto a sensitized paper (potassium iodide and silver nitrate) by exposure in a camera and then developed with sodium thiosulphite. Estabrook has been making calotype negatives and salted paper prints. Along with his Calotypes he also does a lot of commercial/editorial work.