Standing in the shade of the trees at the edge of Deering Oaks Park, photographer Troy Bennett pours a collodion solution over a small square of aluminum, tilting it slowly to coat the entire surface.

I find myself standing at the edge of a world that is both dizzying and exhilarating. A touch of madness, a dash of vertigo—these are always necessary to move forward, to break through limits, and to ...

Corporate sponsorship for American Experience is provided by Liberty Mutual Insurance and Carlisle Companies. Major funding by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Long before the iPhone, another inventive ...

“At that time, photography was no simple act. It involved chemicals, darkrooms ... create a device that would collapse time and put the darkroom inside the camera. Helping Land make this ...

It really is this magical process.” But the problem Thornton couldn’t ignore as her interest in photography grew is that this magical practice is also toxic. The industrial darkroom chemicals and ...

These photosensitive chemicals catapulted photography in a new direction and now make up ... photo paper is sensitive to most wavelengths of light but not all. This allows the darkroom of a film lab ...

Dorothy Adcock, a longtime darkroom manager and ... the Herald in the earlier years when photography wasn’t as refined as it is today. Her hands were in chemicals every day,” remembered ...

Tyler is currently deep into his latest photography project capturing at least ... I couldn't afford to make 30 prints a week in the darkroom. So he was just giving us free chemicals, giving us free ...

"It's making photography ... from the toxic chemicals. During the creative process, she preps the room by cutting off the light prior to grabbing specialized darkroom photographic paper, which ...

That’s when Cardona dove into film photography headfirst, developing his own rolls of film at home. He turned his home into a makeshift darkroom, storing bottles of chemicals and dyeing ...

This course is ideal for photography and darkroom enthusiasts, artists ... You’ll get a practical understanding of how to mix and prepare the chemicals needed to create and develop the cyanotypes, ...