Early photography lacked the convenience of the stable roll film we all know, and instead relied on a set of processes which the photographer would have to master from film to final print.

In 1999, Paul Messier analyzed two prints by the renowned photographer Lewis Hine that were suspected of being forgeries. A photo conservator in private practice at the time, Messier wrote a report ...

Ansel Adams famously likened the printing of a negative to the performing of a musical score. Performance is also key to the seven artists in the Getty’s exhilarating new show, “Light, Paper, Process: ...

Last year John Cyr, a Brooklyn based photographer, printer and educator, began the Developer Trays project as part of his MFA thesis study at the School of Visual Arts. With a strong attachment to his ...

Frenchman Nicéphore Niépce produces first permanent photograph of a view from nature. Uses the photosensitivity of bitumen of Judea. January: Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot presents to the Royal ...

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