Salted Paper Print Workshop December 11, 2010

The year was 1839. William Henry Fox Talbot announced to the world his discovery of what was to become the basis of photography as we understand it to this day. He was able to create "photogenic drawings" by coating paper with a solution of sodium chloride followed by a solution of silver nitrate. Items placed in contact with this surface and exposed to sunlight would "delineate themselves without the aid of an artist's pencil." We refer to Talbot's photogenic drawing as a "salted paper print."

Participants of this workshop will first make photogenic drawings, or photograms, using Talbot's method. We will then use the salted paper process to make positive images from digital negatives. Students will be given an overview of making digital negatives for the salted paper process, but will spend the majority of the day learning safe materials handling, applying emulsion to the paper, exposing the materials to a UV light source, and processing the salted paper print.

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