CHAPTER SEVEN Standardizing Photographic Practice: A Transparent Truth
MECHANICAL PHOTOGRAPHY
During the age of Western industrial development and colonial expansion, with its pocket watches, steamships, and railroads changing society’s sense of time and space, people believed that the machine’s ability to accurately perform repetitive tasks held the key to a better life. Photographers recognized the demand for accurate pictures of historic sites, and the latest technical improvement to the repertoire of processes, transparent collodion materials, was a way to meet this need. The collodion process’s increased sensitivity, retention of detail, and ease of reproduction made it, along with albumen paper prints, the new professional standard. ...
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