In its early days, photography involved a laborious chemical process. But, there’s no doubt that it forever changed how we see and depict the world around us. Fortunately, many wet collodion plates and the process itself survived to this day, serving as poignant reminders of how far we’ve come. Paris-based photographer and
In my last History of Photography article, I talked about the wet plate, or collodion process and how it was quickly adopted as the status quo in the industry. Like many things that are popular, offshoots are invented by people looking for their own piece of the pie. In the
After Talbot introduced the calotype (see my previous article here), the world was in search of something photographic in between the calotype’s unique paper characteristics and the daguerreotype’s pristine, crystal clear detail. In the 1840’s photographers began making the move to glass plates instead of a silvered plate as it
