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Madagascan Palm – Vandyke Brown Van Dyke Brown printing creates beautiful warm brown tones by coating cotton paper with a three part light sensitive solution. Exposure to UV light changes the light sensitive salts to image forming metallic iron and silver in the paper.  The Van Dyke Brown is similar to the original formula patented by Arndt and Troost[…]

Iris Ii – Mordançage The Mordançage process works by chemically bleaching the print so that it can be redeveloped, lifting the black areas of the emulsion away from the paper giving the appearance of veils. The lifted emulsion can be removed or manipulated. Originally called bleach-etch, the process was used to turn film negatives into positives as far back as[…]

Sacred Heart Cathedral – PalladiumMelbourne GPO – Palladium  Platinotype: Palladium Platinotype photographs are distinguished by a matte surface and subtle tonal gradations, the image is embedded in the fibre of the paper.  Because of the tonal range and surface quality of platinum prints, many fine art photographers of the late 19th and early 20th century preferred the process over gelatin silver[…]

Cactus Echeveria Elegans – Orotone  Orotone printing had limited popularity during the late 19th-century through the 1940’s. Seattle photographer Edward S. Curtis refined the technique to the extent that he eventually was considered the greatest master of the process producing hundreds of orotone photographs of Native Americans during his career. The exposed carbon tissue is transferred onto the glass[…]

Pegasus – Platinotype: Platinum Palladium Platinotype photographs are distinguished by a matte surface and subtle tonal gradations, the image is embedded in the fibre of the paper.  Because of the tonal range and surface quality of platinum prints, many fine art photographers of the late 19th and early 20th century preferred the process over gelatin silver prints. The platinum[…]

Mask – DaguerreotypeMetal And Fibre – DaguerreotypeMetal – Daguerreotype  About Daguerrotypes: In an August 1839 publication by Lous Jacques Mondé Daguerre, Daguerreotype was claimed to be the first practical photographic system. The image was sharp and grain-less, but laterally reversed and difficult to view. Each image was an original, and long exposures were necessary.  Although it involved the use of hazardous chemicals and was[…]

Upside Down and Right Side Up – Cyanotype  – Cyanotype Traditional The Cyanotype process was presented by Sir John Herschel in 1842 to the Royal Society of London. A Cyanotype is based on combining ferric ammonium citrate with potassium ferricyanide. Working solutions are created from each of the chemicals. These are mixed in equal parts before coating onto the[…]

Live Oak (Quercus Virginiana) – Platinotype – Platinum Palladium  Platinotype photographs are distinguished by a matte surface and subtle tonal gradations, the image is embedded in the fibre of the paper.  Because of the tonal range and surface quality of platinum prints, many fine art photographers of the late 19th and early 20th century preferred the process over gelatin silver[…]

Jainming Zhong (China)Old Courtyard Suzhou – Carbon Transfer Printing Carbon Transfer printing is a beautiful permanent process with an enormous tonal range. Carbon printing is created by sensitizing pigmented gelatin with dichromate. The pigmented gelatin becomes insoluble in water proportionate to the UV light received through a negative. The exposed pigmented gelatin is transferred onto a support. Hot[…]

Grain Elevator – Gum Oil Each gumoil image is hand-crafted. A sheet of 100% rag paper is coated with sensitized liquid gum Arabic and contact-exposing it to a transparent positive under ultraviolet radiation. The coated sheet is then developed in water, thoroughly dried, and later rubbed with a dark pigment such as lamp black oil paint. Excess[…]