Photographic Printing

写真印画

Dictionary entry

  1. Cyanotype 1842– / Technique

    Fixes the shadow of an object directly into deep blue — record and lyric in the same image.

  2. Daguerreotype 1839–1860s / Technique

    The first practical photography, fixing the image directly on silvered plate: a mirror-reversed unique image in a velvet case — the origin of owning a picture.

  3. Instant Photography 1948– / Technique

    Polaroid's experience of the image appearing on the spot: the white-bordered square, tender chemical color and one-of-a-kind materiality — an intimacy that continues through Instax after digital.

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