This is a book that covers both the historical and practical aspects for anyone who wants to try printing using one of these two processes, albumen or salted paper. It is very detailed and well written.
How photography and painting divided the universe of images is the subject of this book. It’s common to find references to inflammatory positions that saw photography as a great threat to the arts. But this book shows us another side: how many renowned artists, with greater or lesser awareness, have used photography, or a photographic gaze, in their productions.
A process based on collodion but using a tin can painted black as a base. It was by far the cheapest photographic process and was practiced by street photographers for many decades.
The text analyzes the invention of photography through its main protagonists and the way in which the project as a whole was part of the trend towards a disenchantment of the world and a redefinition of our relationship with nature.
Magic lanterns have existed since 1659, but the invention of photography opened up new possibilities for the projected image that would later bring cinema.
A milestone in the history of photography, this book published in 1844 shows 24 calotypes accompanied by comments from their inventor Fox Talbot.
The author of what is considered the first photograph in history, Point de vue du Gras. He used a method he called Heliography, but, curiously, no second photograph was ever taken using the same method.
Revolution in photographic optics. The first general-purpose lens to break the polarization between portrait and landscape. A reasonable aperture at f/8 and an equally reasonable angle of view of around 60º.
The photographic process responsible for the dizzying expansion of photography from the 1850s onwards.
The printing process using albumen as a base for the silver salts was fundamental and practically defined what photography would physically be
The calotype process of 1841 also includes salted paper. But as Talbot already knew how to print the positive using the salted paper process before then, and as this process was also widely used with negatives from other processes, here is a separate description.
Until the 1890s, all prints from negatives were made by contact. The photograph was the same size as the negative and there was no enlargement.