Our historic process specialist and museum experts share techniques and processes from the history of photography and film, demonstrating some of these methods.
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Events in this Series
ONLINE—AZO Paper: History & Demonstration
Process Demonstration: Historic Process Specialist Nick Brandreth will give a hands-on demonstration showing how AZO-style paper is made, and Technology Collection Manager Erin Fisher will share a brief history of this unique paper and its legacy.
ONLINE—Nineteenth-Century Retouching Techniques
In this live presentation, Process Historian Mark Osterman will show examples of early negative retouching.
ONLINE—Early Silver Processes
Experiments in silver chloride date to the eighteenth century, but the chemistry was not fully understood until William Henry Fox Talbot conducted tests in the 1830s. In this virtual talk, Process Historian Mark Osterman will share what Talbot built upon and then perfected.
ONLINE—Early Optics in Photography
Process Historian Mark Osterman will demonstrate how light can be manipulated and used for photography and share the basics of optics that were foundational in the invention of photography.
ONLINE—Clouds & Combination Printing
In this live online program, Process Historian Mark Osterman will discuss the nineteenth-century technique of combination printing from two separate negatives.