Fading cyanotypes

Jaime Gomez Garcia (jaimeg@lander.es)
Thu, 23 May 1996 07:05:13 +0200

At 20:08 21/05/96 +1000, you wrote:

Hi everybody-

>... Is somebody saying that
>they are going to fade away. Iron based pictures from the 1840s made in
alkaline
>water areas still look healthy.

IMHO cyanotypes are much harder than they say. They are supposed to fade
away rapidly with UV light. Well, I wanted to try how fast it was, so I put
one under the summer Spanish sun for a month and a half while keeping a
second in the dark. After the holidays, I compared both: I couldn=B4t find=
any
important difference or fading.

Has anyone of you ever checked this? Did you get the same results?

Best

Jaime
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