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Ilse Bing: Working Methods
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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 modern age and she rapidly developed an idiosyncratic style and a high degree of technical expertise. She was one of the first photographers to adopt the revolutionary small-format Leica camera, and in Paris in the early 1930s she was one of the few to make exclusive use of it.
Bill Brandt Working Methods
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Bill Brandt Working Methods

The working methods of photographer Bill Brandt.
Benjamin Brecknell Turner: Working Methods
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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 had invented the Calotype process in 1840 and patented it in 1841.
Julia Margaret Cameron: Working Methods
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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 applications of her medium in order to create images transcending a purely descriptive function of photography.
Frederick Hollyer: Working Methods
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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 gelatin dry plates improved the quality of Hollyer's reproductions. His platinotypes were 'untouched' and soon prized for their tonal range, matt finish, permanence and faithful rendering.
Curtis Moffat: Working Methods
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Curtis Moffat: Working Methods

Photographers and artists whose work has been related to the photographer Curtis Moffat.
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