Title: Italian Venice
Artist: unknown
Medium: silver chloride printing-out paper is coated with salted egg white and sensitized with silver nitrate
Year: 1850
Give a brief description of the movement, photographer, or term you researched. How are they significant to the history of photography (50-75 words)?
Silver chloride printing-out paper is coated with salted egg white and sensitized with silver nitrate. Albumenized paper was made from 1855, and sold ready sensitized after 1872. Albumen prints present a fine, warm-brown hued image on a thin paper base, toning with gold chloride gives an aubergine-black image color and prevents the paper from ruining and from residual sulphur compounds in the egg-white coating and is also called albumen silver print. Blanquart Évrard invented the paper.
Write a short personal reaction to the movement, photographer or term you researched. What is interesting or not interesting about the work (50 – 75 words).
Albumenized paper is made in a process that starts with 100% cotton and is pressed and sealed into paper. The process in making in the photo paper is so amazing to me because it’s so random. Almost like it could have been a mistake to know that putting cotton in egg white would make a photo paper.
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