Gelatin Emulsion Dry-Plate Negatives
A fun and informative emulsion workshop for beginners!
Intermediate Gelatin Emulsion Dry-Plate Negatives
Building upon our basic gelatin emulsion workshops, this intermediate workshop takes emulsion making to the next level.
35mm Daguerreotype
Make real daguerreotypes with your own 35mm camera without expensive processing equipment or dangerous chemicals!
Dry-Collodion Negatives and Salt Printing
This new stand-alone dry-collodion negative workshop is for those who are interested in this very rare process originally introduced in the mid-1850s.
Wet-Collodion Negatives and Salt Printing
This new, stand-alone, wet-collodion negative workshop is for those who are interested in making wet-plate negatives for studio portraiture, still lifes, and landscapes using this early process originally introduced in 1851.
Albumen Printing
SOLD OUT A new offering by popular demand: a stand-alone 3-day workshop in albumen paper printing!
Niepceotype & Hyalotype: Albumen-on-Glass Plates
SOLD OUTThis is the most unusual class of this workshop season. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn this rare process of making positive transparency plates.
Spirit Photography
SOLD OUT! Get in the spirit and make your own “ghost” images in this popular October workshop.
Carbon Tissue Making and Printing
SOLD OUT Learn to make your own carbon tissues using pigments available at your local art supply store or online.
Gelatin Chloride Printing-out Paper
New! Explore the infinite possibilities of gelatin chloride printing.
Collodion Micro-Photographs
New! Learn how to set up a microscope to make your own microphotographs using the wet-collodion process.
Ambrotype Boot Camp
SOLD OUT! This workshop is a great opportunity to get a feel of what it was like to sit in front of a camera between the 1850s and 1870s. No photographic experience is required, and you’ll leave with a 5×7″ portrait.
Silhouette Boot Camp
Step back into the 19th-century and learn to draw a silhouette from life by candlelight.
Gelatin Dry Plate Boot Camp
This is a great opportunity to experience the photographic process that helped launch George Eastman and Kodak to a place of prominence at the turn of the century.
Book Board Camera Making
In this fun, hands-on workshop, you will be guided in making your own mini 18th-century-style camera obscura.
Tintype Boot Camp
SOLD OUT.This workshop offers you a great opportunity to get a feel of what it was like to sit in front of a camera between the 1850s and 1870s.
Reanimation (Snow White)
Oliver Beer (British, b. 1985)
Reanimation (Snow White), 2014
Digitized animation, 3 min. 4 sec. (loop)
Artist Oliver Beer’s animation is a playful and thought-provoking re-creation of Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), the first animated full-length feature film. Beer chose a 40-second clip from the original film, the scene in which Snow White makes a pie for Grumpy and sings “Someday My Prince Will Come.” He printed each film frame from that clip, removed alternating frames, and sent the remaining frames to schools in southeast France. Five hundred children each received a...