albumen paper — noun : a light sensitive paper prepared by coating with white of egg and a salt (as ammonium chloride) and sensitized by an after treatment with a solution of silver nitrate * * * Photog. a printing paper coated with albumen, salt, and citric… … Useful english dictionary
albumen paper — photographic paper that is coated with egg white in order to increase its sensitivity (used until the late 19th century) … English contemporary dictionary
Albumen print — The albumen print, also called albumen silver print, was invented in 1850 by Louis Désiré Blanquart Evrard, and was the first commercially exploitable method of producing a photographic print on a paper base from a negative. It used the albumen… … Wikipedia
Albumen (disambiguation) — Albumen (or Albumin) may refer to:* Albumin, a water solubule protein * Egg white, the clear liquid contained within an egg See also * Endosperm, tissue produced in the seeds of most flowering plants * Albumen print, method of producing a print… … Wikipedia
albumen print — A paper for making photographic prints, on which egg whites (albumen) coated the paper in order to increase its sensitivity, adding to the brightness of whites in the picture. This process was invented in the mid nineteenth century by… … Glossary of Art Terms
photography, history of — Introduction method of recording the image of an object through the action of light, or related radiation, on a light sensitive material. The word, derived from the Greek photos (“light”) and graphein (“to draw”), was first used in the… … Universalium
Collodion process — An old deteriorated wet plate featuring Theodore Roosevelt The collodion process is an early photographic process. It was introduced in the 1850s and by the end of that decade it had almost entirely replaced the first practical photographic… … Wikipedia
Pierre Rossier — Pierre Joseph Rossier (born 16 July 1829, died between 1883 and 1898) was a pioneering Swiss photographer whose albumen photographs, which include stereographs and cartes de visite, comprise portraits, cityscapes, and landscapes. He was… … Wikipedia
Photograph — A photograph (often shortened to photo) is an image created by light falling on a light sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a… … Wikipedia
Chromophotography — is a technique, somewhere between painting and photography, which evolved in the second half of the 19th century. Firstly, two prints of the photograph were made. One was hand painted with very bright colours; the other was painted in paler… … Wikipedia
