This week’s Inspiring Illustrations post about photography is on the topic of the somewhat less noble yet very prolific format of the postcard. As a… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 40: The Photographic Postcard
The medium of the Gelatin Silver Print was developed (no pun intended) in 1873 and was in general use by the 1880s. This type of… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 36: the Gelatin Silver Print
Instead of focusing on a specific medium, this week’s Inspiring Illustrations post on photography is devoted to a well-known presentation format, the stereograph. More recently… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 33: 3D Photography — the Stereograph
At first glance many would mistake the sepia tones of a woodburytype print with the very prolific 19th century process of the albumen print. There… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 26: a marriage of gelatin, lead, pigment and paper — The Woodburytype
Thinking at an elementary level about photographic processes, one can associate the physical makeup of photographs with the romance and glamour of precious metals such… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 24: the Humble Carbon Print
We couldn’t resist celebrating St Andrews day with some ‘inspiring illustrations’ of our eponym himself. The cult of St Andrew was actively pursued in Scotland… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 23: Images of St Andrew
Printing out paper, or “P.O.P.” in photo-specialist jargon, constitutes the progression of the photographic print medium following the reign of the albumen print. Strictly speaking,… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 17: P.O.P.! (or, printing out paper!)
In 1850 the albumen print process was invented in France by Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Evrard. Used almost exclusively in combination with glass plate negatives, the clarity and… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 14: rotten egg whites usher in the modern era of photography — the Albumen Print Process
The term “calotype” is from the Greek kalos meaning beautiful. It is the name given to Fox Talbot‘s negative process. The name is often mistakenly… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 8: the Calotype Negative
In the 1970s, the Department of Special Collections took in the vast archive of the commercial photographic company known as Valentines of Dundee. This internationally… Read More »Genealogical research on the Valentine family reveals confirmed portrait of Agnes Forbes Blackadder Savill
The photogenic drawing was the first of Fox Talbot’s photographic processes which he would present to the world on the 25th of January, 1839. This… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 5: Cameraless, Lensless and Shutterless Photography: The Photogenic Drawing
As part of our 52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations we will explore the Photographic Collection by examining the evolution of photographic processes as they are… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 3: An Evolutionary History of Photography
