ELENI PHILIPPOU gets involved in Cyanotypes, images in striking shades of blue, and finds she is not the only one in Cyprus intrigued by them Sunlight, flowers and iron salts. This is not a recipe for ...
In 1999, Paul Messier analyzed two prints by the renowned photographer Lewis Hine that were suspected of being forgeries. A photo conservator in private practice at the time, Messier wrote a report ...
Louis Daguerre (above) and Isidore Niepce were granted pensions by the French Parliament, allowing them to make their photographic process available to the public. Daguerreotype: Jean-Baptiste ...
Over the course of its history, photography has left a trail of also-ran processes—techniques that flourished and faded, alternate ways of recording reality. In a new exhibition, the J. Paul Getty ...
Last year John Cyr, a Brooklyn based photographer, printer and educator, began the Developer Trays project as part of his MFA thesis study at the School of Visual Arts. With a strong attachment to his ...
The George Eastman House released a 12-part video series last month that starts with the silhouette and traces photography's development through daguerreotypes, cyanotypes, Kodachrome, and right up to ...
Ansel Adams famously likened the printing of a negative to the performing of a musical score. Performance is also key to the seven artists in the Getty’s exhilarating new show, “Light, Paper, Process: ...