New in 2016! Albumen prints were the standard for card-mounted stereographs from the early 1860s through the 1890s. Learn how to print and mount real albumen print stereographs for 3-D viewing in this workshop. 

Sold out! Please email [email protected] to be added to the waiting list. Ambrotypes and tintypes are the hottest alternative processes used in fine art photography today. In this intensive five-day workshop, participants will be guided through the basics of making these unique positive wet-collodion images by Mark Osterman, internationally recognized as a modern master of the collodion process.

Sold out!  Please email [email protected] to be added to the waiting list. 

This is the ultimate alternative to factory-made black and white film. The basics of making gelatin emulsion dry plates are covered in this fun and informative emulsion workshop for beginners. 

In this vacation workshop, participants shoot handmade 4x5″ gelatin dry plate glass negatives in the Adirondacks. This process is similar to that used by famed nineteenth-century Adirondack photographer Seneca Ray Stoddard, who brought attention to this eastern wilderness.

Make real daguerreotypes with your own 35mm camera without expensive processing equipment or dangerous chemicals. 

Sold out! Please email [email protected] to be added to the waiting list. Learn the two most popular printing processes of the nineteenth century: salt and albumen. 

Learn to make your own carbon tissues using pigments available at your local art supply store or online.

In this three-day workshop, participants will attend several illustrated lectures on the evolution of the photographic process from its beginnings in the 1830s through the digital age. 

Can you tell a photogravure from a platinum print? When is a photograph really a reproduction of a photograph? It’s all about the ink. When photographs are used to make printing plates to be printed in ink, the resulting images fall under the category of photomechanical prints.

Learn to make an American Ivorytype, which has the appearance of a hand-painted ivory miniature.

Each year, we invite employees of our corporate members to enjoy a day of free museum admission.

To learn more about the benefits of corporate membership, go to Corporate Giving or contact Katie Riley, manager of annual giving, at [email protected] or (585) 271-3361 ext. 233.

Ross Knapper, collection manager in the Department of Photography, will discuss the work on view in the most recent installation of A History of Photography.

Enjoy a preview of Brian Ulrich's exhibition, The Centurion, at this conversation between the artist and Lisa Hostetler, curator in charge, Department of Photography.

For forty years, Wendy Ewald has traveled the world working with children and adults to document their communities.