Salted paper prints - Photographers of note |
William Henry Fox Talbot was the first photographer to make salted paper prints, and he set up a printing establishment in Reading, England to produce the prints, particularly the editions needed for the first major photographic book, "The Pencil of Light".
David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, working in Edinburgh (Talbot's patent on the process did not cover Scotland) produced a magnificent body of portraits of leading figures there in the 1840s, including several hundred ministers of the kirk as studies for a painting by Hill. Perhaps most impressive are their images of the fishermen and fishwives of the nearby village of Newhaven.
The calotype, and in particular the waxed paper variation of it, which increased the transparency of the paper negative was perhaps at its finest among French photographers in the early 1850s. Many of the fine prints produced from their work were salt prints, although later prints from their negatives may well be matte albumen. Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Evrard and Gustave Le Gray were the pioneers of the waxed paper process and produced much fine work as salt prints. In 1851, Blanquart-Evrard set up the first mass-production factory in Lille to produce salt prints; he increased production speed greatly by giving only a short exposure and then using a developer to produce the full image. This factory printed the 25,000 prints needed to publish around 200 copies of Maxime Du Camp's 'Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie', each with 125 prints, the first French publication to be illustrated by real photographs.
Significant portfolios and books
William Henry Fox Talbot 'The Pencil of Nature', (Longmans, London) (1844)
[The first multiple copy photographic book, published as a series of six 'fascicles', each containing 4 salted paper prints for subscribers to bind.]
Maxime Du Camp 'Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie' (1852)
[Around 200 copies, each with 125 original salt prints.]
Felix Teynard 'Egypt and Nubia' (1853-4)
[40 salt prints]
John Beasley Greene 'Le Nil, monuments, paysage photographiques' (1854)
Auguste Salzmann 'Jerusalem' (1856)
Louis De Clercq 'Voyage en Orient 1859-1860, villes, monuments et vues pittoresques' (1859-60)
Salted paper prints - Example photographers |
4014 photographers using this technique are included on this website
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| | | A. Luswergh e figlio | | | Adam-Salomon, Antoine Samuel | Other: Antony Samuel Adam-Salomon
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| | Adamson, John | | | Aguado, Olympe | Other: Comte Olympio-Clémente Aguado de Las Marismas
Other: Count Olympe Aguado
Other: Count Olympe-Clémente Aguado de las Marismas
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| | Ahrendts, Leopold | | | Alexander, Richard Dykes | | | Alinari | | | Alinari, Leopoldo | | | Altobelli, Gioacchino | | | Anderson, James | Born: Isaac Atkinson
Pen: William Nugent Dunbar
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| | Angerer, Ludwig | | | Anthony, Mark | | | Archer, Frederick Scott | | | Asser, Eduard Isaac | | | Bacot, Edmond | | | Baldus, Édouard | Born: Eduard Baldus
Other: E. Baldus
Other: Edouard Baldus
Other: Edouard Denis Baldus *** Historical error ***
Other: Edouard-Denis Baldus *** Historical error ***
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| | Baltzly, B.F. | | | Bambridge, William | | | Batchelder, J. | Other: Bachelder
Other: John Batchelder
Other: John C. Bachelder
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