What do eggs and Venice have in common? If you thought that this blog’s title weren’t quirky enough, read further. Mid-1850. Venice has become one of the most popular cities, drawing a steady stream of tourists. Many artists made a living by creating and selling views of the city. Photography by then had become cheaper…
This week we have for you 2 movie recommendations that you can watch for free on Youtube. Both movies are produced by Kaufman brothers, born in Soviet Białystok (now Poland) into a family of Jewish intellectuals. Man with a movie camera A movie directed by Dziga Vertov (born David Abelevich Kaufman) is an experimental soviet…
Collotype is a photographic printing process invented in France in 1855 by Alphonse Poitevin. It gives accurate reproduction because no halftone screen is employed to break the images into dots. It looks like this old process is nowadays commercially used only in Japan. There are 2 studios left in Kyoto that use collotype printing to…
Today’s a special day for all pinhole photographers out there! We will share with you our takeaways from this day and the best online resources to enjoy it. We hope that you had enjoyed our very first article here and have also checked out our alternative photography images and recent Instagram posts. If not, we…
As per this photography article, Henry Talbot had invented the negative technique in 1830s. French artists also favored the paper negative and its poetic. Around 1850 the painter and experimenter Gustave Le Gray introced the waxed paper negative, which meant that the negative paper could be coated and kept up to 2 weeks before exposure…
Although immediately popular and available without patent restriction from the very beginning, the daguerrotype was not the only photographic medium announced in 1839. William Henry Fox Talbot, an amateur scientist in England had corresponding with his friend and colleague, the scientist Sir John Herschel (1792-1871), about their mutual discovering using the camera obscura and Lucida,…
Photograms are made through a simple cameraless process that dates back to the earliest photographic experiments. Pioneering 19-century photographer W.H. Fox Talbots developed this technique for his “shadowgrams”, but it was Man Ray who popularized it, …
In 1839 the invention of 2 distinct photograph processes were announced in France and England: the daguerrotype by Luis Jacques Daguerre the negative / positive process by Henry Fox Talbot Daguerre’s one produced one of a kind highly detailed image on a silver coated copper plate while Talbot’s one was a paper based negative/positive process…