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Alternative Photo Workshop in Salt Printing
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Posted by: Penumbra Foundation
Deadline: Sat, June 22nd, 2019
Salt Printing Workshop
https://www.penumbrafoundation.org/
917-288–0343
36 East 30th Street, NYC
June 22-23, 2019 10am-6pm
Learn the most romantic 19th Century photography process in this two day workshop @ the Penumbra Foundation. Using your own negatives you will explore the inexpensive and elegant photographic process of salt printing. It is the earliest photographic print processes, invented in the 1930s by Fox Talbot, and one of the loveliest.
This technique combines NaCl (table salt), silver nitrate and gelatin. Sunlight or UV lamps are used for exposure and a variety of paper choices, salting agents and toners yield different monochrome colors ranging from black, sepia, purplish to a warmer red. It is a lovely process and the practitioner can select various papers, salting/sizing, toners and surface treatments to create an emotional language for their own aesthetic needs. Once you understand the idiosyncrasies of this technique all you will need is sunlight, a contact frame and a few chemicals to continue the practice at home.
The instructor, Melitte Buchman, as been an active practitioner of both salt printing and tin typing for over a decade. As a professional photographer she is also knowledgeable digital technology and creating appropriate digitally made negatives for alternative photography practices.
Posted on Tue, March 19th, 2019
Expires on Sat, June 22nd, 2019
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