Photography: The Wet Collodion Process

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Daguerreotype
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The daguerreotype is a one-of-a-kind, highly detailed photographic image on a polished copper plate coated with silver. It was the first popular photographic medium and enjoyed great success when it was introduced in 1839. Although primarily a nineteenth-century medium involving a painstaking process, daguerreotypy is still practiced today by an active -- and avid -- group of devotees. Watch a video about the process.

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Calotype
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The calotype process was created by William Henry Fox Talbot, and introduced in 1840. His invention, which shortened exposure times and allowed multiple prints to be made from a single negative, became the basis for photography as it is practiced today.
 Read Talbot’s biography and explore some of his photographs in the Getty Museum's collection.

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Help Advance the Science of Photography
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Scientists at the Getty Conservation Institute need your old photographic papers, film, negatives, and prints to build an archive of knowledge and materials from the era of classical photography. This archive will become a reference collection for future generations of photo conservators and scholars, and will allow them to research and authenticate the treasures of the classical photography era. Learn more about what you can do.

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Negative/Positive Process Experiment
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William Henry Fox Talbot was still experimenting with the negative/positive process in photography when he made this negative of a painting on glass. Examine William Henry Fox Talbot’s The Head of Christ from a Painting on Glass, 1839.

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Albumen
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Browse a selection of albumen prints in the Getty Museum’s collection.

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Analyzing Photographs
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Learn how to view, analyze, and write about photographs in this curriculum.

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Invented in 1851, the wet collodion photographic process produced a glass negative and a beautifully detailed print. Preferred for the quality of the prints and the ease with which they could be reproduced, the new method thrived from the 1850s until about 1880.

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