19th Century Photographic Processes

The cyanotype was developed by John Herschel in 1842 and became his most commercially successful photographic process. It requires only two ...

The VanDyke brown print is an iron-silver process based on the argentotype invented by John Herschel in 1842. The process gets its name from...

The albumen print was invented in 1850 by Louis Desire Blanquart-Evrard and was the dominant positive print process in the second half ...

I removed the step tablet from the anthotype that was in the window for a month. It has lightened considerably and is definitely the most fa...

I removed the step tablet from my second anthotype that was in the window for two weeks. Not only has the overall color lightened from longe...

Philosophers and scholars such as Mo-Ti in the 5 th century BCE and Aristotle in the next century observed and described the phenomen...

Talbot’s salted paper process was a printed-out process (POP) meaning the photographs were developed in the sun. The photographs are ...