{"id":5016,"date":"2021-02-18T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=5016"},"modified":"2021-02-18T23:19:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T04:19:51","slug":"first-salted-paper-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=5016","title":{"rendered":"First Salted-Paper Print"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m excited!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After much reading and gathering of supplies, I spent this afternoon and evening making my first salted-paper prints*.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Salted-paper printing is the progenitor of all of modern (film-based) photography. The process was invented in the 1830’s by Henry Fox Talbot and announced at the Royal Society in London at the end of January 1839, a few weeks after the Daguerreotype was announced in Paris. Both processes lay claim to being the “invention of photography”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The salted-paper process is deceptively simple, one begins by soaking paper in salt water. After the paper is dry one makes it light sensitive by coating the salted-paper with a solution of silver nitrate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the sensitized paper is dry one exposes the paper to ultraviolet light through a negative. Traditionally the sun is used as a light source. I used the same exposure box containing blacklight LEDs that I use for cyanotype. Upon exposure, an image ‘magically’ appears on the paper, fully formed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One then processes the paper through a number of solutions to remove the unreacted silver making the print stable to further exposure to light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The procedure I used is essentially that described in Chapter 5 of Christina Anderson’s book “Salted Paper Printing\/ A Step-By-Step Manual Highlighting Contemporary Artists<\/a>“. I used a 4×5 inch digital negative and printed on Hahnemuhle Platinum Rag paper as it came from the mill (i.e. I did not size the paper.) The prints are untoned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made four prints today using two different negatives. Shown below is the very first print I made. The others are still too wet to be scanned, so I can’t show them yet!<\/p>\n\n\n

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* Well, this is not precisely true. I made a few salted-paper prints at a workshop I attended maybe 15 years ago. But that is not anything close to making prints in your own dimroom. I have no idea what has become of the prints I made back then. I must have decided that they were not worth keeping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m excited! After much reading and gathering of supplies, I spent this afternoon and evening making my first salted-paper prints*. Salted-paper printing is the progenitor of all of modern (film-based) photography. The process was invented in the 1830’s by Henry Fox Talbot and announced at the Royal Society in London at the end of January […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,93,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-processes","category-landscapes-2","category-salted-paper-prints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5016"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5021,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions\/5021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}