Ilse Bing working methods
Like many photographers of the 1930s, Ilse Bing was self-taught in terms of technique and composition. Photography attracted her as a new visual language appropriate to the…
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Benjamin Brecknell Turner Working Methods
Benjamin Brecknell Turner took up paper negative ('Calotype' or 'Talbotype') photography in 1849 with a license from its inventor William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-77). Talbot…
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Julia Margaret Cameron: working methods
Julia Margaret Cameron made albumen-silver prints from wet collodion glass plate negatives. She was innovative and unconventional in her approach to the technical applicati…
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Frederick Hollyer: working methods
Frederick Hollyer's early work was produced by a variety of methods, but in 1878 he began to use platinum printing (platinotype). The shift to platinotype printing and gela…
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