A photographic print that uses albumen, more commonly known as egg white, as a binder layer. To make the print, a glass-plate negative is placed in direct contact with the sensitized paper and exposed. The result is that the print and the negative are the same size.
Albumen prints are admired for their tonal range and strong blacks. To increase stability, these prints were often toned with gold, which turned the warm yellow image to a lush purple. Albumen silver prints were the dominant process from 1850 through the 1880s, when they were replaced by collodion and gelatin silver prints.
Works
8 works online
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Eugène Atget 38 Rue Descartes 1910
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Gary Stephen Brotmeyer Dolphin Leaping Through a Hoop of Fire/Sporting a Sputnik/ Study for Dolphin & Sputnik 1982
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William Henry Jackson Ute Pass 1858-1941
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Unidentified photographer Kodak #1 prints c. 1890
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Timothy O'Sullivan Ancient Ruins in the Cañon de Chelle, New Mexico. In a Niche Fifty Feet Above Present Cañon Bed 1873
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Julia Margaret Cameron Pre-Raphaelite Study 1870
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Carleton E. Watkins Late George Cling Peaches 1889
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Gustave Le Gray The Great Wave, Sète 1856
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