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Photography Beyond Technique: Essays from F295 on the Informed Use of Alternative and Historical Photographic Processes
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Photography Beyond Technique: Essays from F295 on the Informed Use of Alternative and Historical Photographic Processes

by Tom Persinger
February 2014
Beginner to intermediate
240 pages
5h 31m
English
Routledge
Content preview from Photography Beyond Technique: Essays from F295 on the Informed Use of Alternative and Historical Photographic Processes

IMPRECISE EVIDENCE

Laura Blacklow

William Henry Fox–Talbot called his early photographic experiments photogenic drawings. Created without the use of a camera, these pictures offer silhouette images of leaves and lace that had been placed in direct contact with writing paper sensitized with silver salts. Talbot announced his photographic research in 1839. Not long after, in 1843, Anna Atkins created Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, the first book illustrated with photographs. Privately published as a hand-bound, limited edition, it included a handwritten text along with photogenic drawings (cyanotypes) of seaweed and algae she gathered along the British coast.

I am attracted to Talbot and Atkins’ (now alternative) ways of making ...

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