daguerreotypes and beyond
Saturday, December 29th, 2007The Nelson-Atkins had an exhibit on the Origins of American Photography, an exhibit featuring daguerreotypes and paper photography, cyanotypes, salt prints, albumen prints and amber prints.
Seeing the evolution of mediums and materials reminded me of a story I’d heard on NPR back in ‘03. Binh Danh makes prints on plants, using the sun and a few pieces of glass as his enlarger.
And then there’s Matthew Wheeler, who made a lens out of ice. Check out the resulting images.
It all makes my little digital camera seem much, much too easy.