Alternative Process Photography and Science Meet at the Getty

Getty just published a nice (technical) article on alternativephotography.com. My portion of the piece is about halfway down the page (embedded screenshot). Preserving the Chemical Photography Era

The project is called, “Preserving the Chemical Photography Era”. A very important project. I’m honored to participate. I have some more work to do for them, too; negatives, Albumen print, and some unvarnished pieces.

I’m not sure who the Bulgarian is they are referring to in the article. I’ll have to find out. I’m not sure what else you would call a Collodion image made on aluminum other than an Alumitype.

I need to update my gallery on alternativephotography. There are Collodion photographs there from 2003 and 2004! The images aren’t bad, but you can really see where I was (technically) at the time.

The Getty & My Wet Plate Collodion Photographs

Last Friday, I received a package from The Getty Institute. It contained information about my photographs I submitted for their analysis and collection for the project, "Preserving the Chemical Photography Era".

It's packed with information about the Wet Plate Collodion images I submitted. There's a lot of "geeky" scientific stuff (Get Your Geek On!). I'm going to make some more images for them - they've asked for some specific things to help them with their research and moreover, for future generations. I believe that there will be a time, in the not-to-distance future, when "photo students" won't know what film is, let alone a process like Wet Plate Collodion. It makes me feel honored to be a part of this project!

The Getty paper.

Analysis on my Collodion photographs

Details of the analysis at the Getty.

Preserving The Chemical Photography Era: The Getty

I was pleasantly surprised today when I picked up our mail. The Getty Conservation Institute gave me a nice certificate and letter for my contributions to the project, "Preserving the Chemical Photography Era."The Getty Cert and Thank You

I was happy to participate. I'm going to try to submit some more photographs over the next few months; the Collodion Negative, Albumen print, Salt print, and Ferrotype. I can geek out a little bit doing this stuff and make some nice images for the Getty to keep forever.