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Light and Silver

Techniques

Noble techniques: wet collodion, cyanotypes, Van Dyke, bichromate gum, hand-tinted gelatine-silver prints, pinhole photography, lith prints or the Polaroid process, etc

Collodion Monika

Collodion Monika

Wet collodion

A photographic process developed in 1850 using cellulose nitrate applied to a glass plate.

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Bichromate gum

Procédé photographique non argentique inventé au milieu du XIXe siècle,

Van Dyke

The process is based on the argentotype invented by Sir John Herschel in 1842; it owes its name to its similarity to Van Dyck's brown paint.

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Cyanotype

Developed in 1842, the cyanotype is an old negative monochrome photographic process that produces a Prussian blue, or cyan blue, photographic print.

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Lith Print

Lith prints are particularly notable for their hard and grainy shadows.

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