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I bought six new books last week. It's a good thing I have a vacation coming up.

GEISHA READING A BOOK BEFORE SLEEPING -- A Meiji-era Studio View of Old Japan ("Salt Print" # 8)




Image by Okinawa Soba

From a rare series of ca.1880s-90s full-plate images printed by sunlight on simple "salted paper", and hand-tinted with transparent water colors -- but not by me. These are all over 110 years old.

Photo attributed to REIJI EASKI.

The process harks back to the very beginning of photography when Fox Talbot of England introduced the first commercially viable paper based photographic process to the world (but held himself and the world up with his jealously guarded patents). Although the first prints were made from waxed PAPER NEGATIVES called 'Calotypes", these "Revival Salt Prints" seen in the 11 prints posted here were made with GLASS NEGATIVES.

The print paper had no emulsion layer (no collodian, albumen, or gelatin), and was developed right into the silver-sensitized fibers of the PLAIN PAPER they used. As the tinting was applied, it soaked immediately into the paper, living up to the literal meaning of SATURATED color. As you can see here, both the photograph and color that saturated the paper have remained rich and vibrant.

However, a few photographers who also went down the salt print road were not so lucky, as poor processing and underexposed images tended to have fading problems. That being said, a well done Salt Print is a beauty to behold.

dipstick_book




Image by SlipStreamJC

posture FTW.

this really hurt my head, that's a heavy book.

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