Re: albumen printing
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- Subject: Re: albumen printing
- From: etienne garbaux <photographeur@nerdshack.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:13:59 -0500
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Andy wrote:
Can anyone point me to some references on how to make and sensitize
albumen paper? I've been wanting to do this process for quite some
time now, and I figured now's the time to start gathering materials
and a knowledge base to start making them.
The seminal reference is:
Reilly, James M. The Albumen & Salted Paper Book: The history and
practice of photographic printing, 1840-1895. Light Impressions
Corporation. Rochester, 1980.
It is available on-line at:
http://albumen.stanford.edu/library/monographs/reilly/
Reilly is a conservator and professor at RIT.
Albumen is a gorgeous process, and Reilly got me to where I could
make albumen prints that I thought were as nice as the best ones made
during the (relatively brief) heyday of albumen.
Best regards,
etienne