Rochester Institute of Technology

RIT publishes book on photographic printing

RIT Press at Rochester Institute of Technology unveils the publication of The Albumen and Salted Paper Book by James Reilly. The book is a descriptive history of the major photographic printing ...
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Albumen print of a sharecropping family

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Hyperallergic

How the West Was Won by a 19th-Century Photographer

Carleton Watkins, “Pompompasos, the Three Brothers, Yosemite 4480 ft.” (1865–1866), from the album “Photographs of the Yosemite Valley,” Albumen print. (Lent by Department of Special Collections, ...
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Albumen print of enslaved women and their children near Alexandria, Virginia

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Sydney Morning Herald

Pioneering technique keeps a delicate world aglow

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. DURING the last half of the 19th century, photography was dominated by albumen printing. Introduced in Paris in 1850 by Louis ...
Hyperallergic

The Father of French Journalism Who Documented Paris’s Socialist Revolution

Bruno Braquehais, "Toppled bronze statue of Napoleon from the Vendôme Column" (1871), albumen print (all images courtesy Getty Research Institute) This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Paris ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Photographs of America’s Eastern Treasures Finally Have Their Moment in the Limelight

Henry Peter Bosse Construction of Rock and Brush Dam, L.W., 1891 cyanotype National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon One of the first-known photographs of Niagara Falls looks ...