Caviglia cleared the sand down to the chest in 1817 - and uncovered the Dream Stele between the paws, which vanished again until Mariette refound it in 1858. Baraize freed the whole body only in 1925-36, so du Camp's calotypes caught a Sphinx that was still mostly buried.
October 19, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Caviglia cleared the sand down to the chest in 1817 - and uncovered the Dream Stele between the paws, which vanished again until Mariette refound it in 1858. Baraize freed the whole body only in 1925-36, so du Camp's calotypes caught a Sphinx that was still mostly buried.
See Francis Lockey's rare calotypes, 1849–1861 in Worlds Apart until Sat 26th.
Fear not, you can also see them here...
https://www.brlsi.org/collections/library/lockey-calotypes/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lockey_calotypes&utm_content=bluesky_post
#BRLSI #Bath
Fear not, you can also see them here...
https://www.brlsi.org/collections/library/lockey-calotypes/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lockey_calotypes&utm_content=bluesky_post
#BRLSI #Bath
September 23, 2026 at 12:46 PM
See Francis Lockey's rare calotypes, 1849–1861 in Worlds Apart until Sat 26th.
Fear not, you can also see them here...
https://www.brlsi.org/collections/library/lockey-calotypes/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lockey_calotypes&utm_content=bluesky_post
#BRLSI #Bath
Fear not, you can also see them here...
https://www.brlsi.org/collections/library/lockey-calotypes/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lockey_calotypes&utm_content=bluesky_post
#BRLSI #Bath
📷 Worlds Apart at #BRLSI explores early #photography in #Bath & #China. See 170-year-old calotypes, historic prints, and objects that bring scenes to life. 🏛️Free exhibition, 28 Mar–26 Sep. www.brlsi.org/whatson/worl... #PhotographyHistory #Bath #BRLSI #ArtAndHistory
March 11, 2026 at 1:36 PM
📷 Worlds Apart at #BRLSI explores early #photography in #Bath & #China. See 170-year-old calotypes, historic prints, and objects that bring scenes to life. 🏛️Free exhibition, 28 Mar–26 Sep. www.brlsi.org/whatson/worl... #PhotographyHistory #Bath #BRLSI #ArtAndHistory
How was it made? Calotypes | V&A
YouTube video by Victoria and Albert Museum
youtu.be
April 16, 2025 at 3:42 AM
This is the information i have "Turner's photographs were 'contact' printed from paper negatives (known as calotypes) of the same size as the print. He printed them on albumen paper, which is paper that has been floated on an emulsion of egg white containing light-sensitive silver salts."
June 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
This is the information i have "Turner's photographs were 'contact' printed from paper negatives (known as calotypes) of the same size as the print. He printed them on albumen paper, which is paper that has been floated on an emulsion of egg white containing light-sensitive silver salts."
Coincidentally found out as a result of trawling (pun absolutely intended) through the Hill & Adamson calotypes that our house is named for a generation of Newhaven Fishwives called Ann
November 25, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Coincidentally found out as a result of trawling (pun absolutely intended) through the Hill & Adamson calotypes that our house is named for a generation of Newhaven Fishwives called Ann
...to the pioneering early "street photography" of Hill and Adamson, who found the fishwives of Newhaven an endless source of creative fascination, making endless calotypes of them around 1843-5
November 22, 2024 at 12:11 PM
...to the pioneering early "street photography" of Hill and Adamson, who found the fishwives of Newhaven an endless source of creative fascination, making endless calotypes of them around 1843-5
I've been really wanting to get into calotypes and kallitypes! I've done cyanotypes, platinum, gum bichromate, chrysotype... But there's always so much more I want to explore :3
September 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I've been really wanting to get into calotypes and kallitypes! I've done cyanotypes, platinum, gum bichromate, chrysotype... But there's always so much more I want to explore :3
100 Calotypes? in this economy?
March 28, 2024 at 7:53 PM
100 Calotypes? in this economy?
Looking at my notes, she isn't, to my knowledge, in any of the following H&A albums: Bicknell, Stanfield, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, British Library album, "Century of Calotypes" at Edinburgh Central Library. I've not seen her in a collector album either so does look like individual prints?
January 20, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Looking at my notes, she isn't, to my knowledge, in any of the following H&A albums: Bicknell, Stanfield, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, British Library album, "Century of Calotypes" at Edinburgh Central Library. I've not seen her in a collector album either so does look like individual prints?
A brief summary of things I've been working on lately in re. Hill and Adamson and what's next in the pipeline: britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blo...
Collecting Calotypes in the Nineteenth Century: two examples of Hill, Mann and Adamson Albums
The study of photography collectors and collecting in the nineteenth century promises to open rich new ground for us in understanding about how the medium was received and regarded during its first go...
britishphotohistory.ning.com
March 18, 2024 at 8:33 AM
A brief summary of things I've been working on lately in re. Hill and Adamson and what's next in the pipeline: britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blo...
A short write-up of an album of Hill and Adamson salt prints - and other things! - that I was privileged to spend some hours with last week. I am calling it, absolutely unofficially and without permission, the Brodie album - lixmount.substack.com/p/the-brodie...
The Brodie Album of Hill and Adamson Calotypes
The collecting of Hill and Adamson’s calotypes and prints, individually and collected into albums, remains open and exciting territory for scholarship. This description of an album now in the care of ...
lixmount.substack.com
February 25, 2024 at 3:01 PM
A short write-up of an album of Hill and Adamson salt prints - and other things! - that I was privileged to spend some hours with last week. I am calling it, absolutely unofficially and without permission, the Brodie album - lixmount.substack.com/p/the-brodie...
But their drive wasn't to downplay Adamson - it was to play up the artist David Octavius Hill in order to convince an audience that the calotypes were worthy of their attention.
September 13, 2023 at 3:28 PM
But their drive wasn't to downplay Adamson - it was to play up the artist David Octavius Hill in order to convince an audience that the calotypes were worthy of their attention.
But David Octavius Hill was a landscape painter. The early writers fell on him with relief, because his presence was such a help in establishing the calotypes as successful artworks.
September 13, 2023 at 3:28 PM
But David Octavius Hill was a landscape painter. The early writers fell on him with relief, because his presence was such a help in establishing the calotypes as successful artworks.
If the early writers wanted to present the calotypes as art - as successful, beautiful, moving art - then along with the pictures there had to be an artist. Adamson, an engineer, wouldn't have convinced.
September 13, 2023 at 3:27 PM
If the early writers wanted to present the calotypes as art - as successful, beautiful, moving art - then along with the pictures there had to be an artist. Adamson, an engineer, wouldn't have convinced.
The early Hill & Adamson authors want to infect others with their enthusiasm and love for the Calton Hill calotypes. But to do that they have to place them in the world of art - of painting, drawing and engraving.
September 13, 2023 at 3:27 PM
The early Hill & Adamson authors want to infect others with their enthusiasm and love for the Calton Hill calotypes. But to do that they have to place them in the world of art - of painting, drawing and engraving.
An interesting evening reading early published accounts of the 1840s Edinburgh photographic partnership of Hill & Adamson. Early writers tend to minimise Adamson's contribution; I'd like to understand more about why.
September 13, 2023 at 3:26 PM
An interesting evening reading early published accounts of the 1840s Edinburgh photographic partnership of Hill & Adamson. Early writers tend to minimise Adamson's contribution; I'd like to understand more about why.
I saw the video where he recommended that. Six months later he recommended something else. I went to the link for Easy Digital Negatives and saw who was behind it. I just finished reading his book about calotypes and was underwhelmed.
January 13, 2026 at 9:16 PM
I saw the video where he recommended that. Six months later he recommended something else. I went to the link for Easy Digital Negatives and saw who was behind it. I just finished reading his book about calotypes and was underwhelmed.
Chekhov’s stories are essentially plotless.
Mirsky wrote they are a “biography of a mood,”
and Chekhov himself hoped to write
with the objectivity of a chemist.
rattle.com/glosa-by-dia...
Mirsky wrote they are a “biography of a mood,”
and Chekhov himself hoped to write
with the objectivity of a chemist.
rattle.com/glosa-by-dia...
Glosa by Diane Seuss - Rattle: Poetry
He took to reading Chekhov late at night
and studied up on Fox Talbot and calotypes.
rattle.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Chekhov’s stories are essentially plotless.
Mirsky wrote they are a “biography of a mood,”
and Chekhov himself hoped to write
with the objectivity of a chemist.
rattle.com/glosa-by-dia...
Mirsky wrote they are a “biography of a mood,”
and Chekhov himself hoped to write
with the objectivity of a chemist.
rattle.com/glosa-by-dia...
William Henry Fox Talbot fut l'autre inventeur de la photographie avec Daguerre. Je me suis beaucoup intéressé à lui et j'ai collectionné nombre de ses calotypes.
November 19, 2024 at 7:46 PM
William Henry Fox Talbot fut l'autre inventeur de la photographie avec Daguerre. Je me suis beaucoup intéressé à lui et j'ai collectionné nombre de ses calotypes.
The Photograph Is Genuine. The Story Was Invented Yesterday.
At first glance, early photography looks fairly straightforward. There is a face, an approximate date, perhaps the name of a studio, and a seller assuring you that the object is rare, untouched and possibly connected to someone important.
At first glance, early photography looks fairly straightforward. There is a face, an approximate date, perhaps the name of a studio, and a seller assuring you that the object is rare, untouched and possibly connected to someone important.
The Photograph Is Genuine. The Story Was Invented Yesterday.
A collector’s guide to daguerreotypes, calotypes, tintypes, and cartes de visite
culturevulturegallery.substack.com
July 8, 2026 at 6:39 AM
The Photograph Is Genuine. The Story Was Invented Yesterday.
At first glance, early photography looks fairly straightforward. There is a face, an approximate date, perhaps the name of a studio, and a seller assuring you that the object is rare, untouched and possibly connected to someone important.
At first glance, early photography looks fairly straightforward. There is a face, an approximate date, perhaps the name of a studio, and a seller assuring you that the object is rare, untouched and possibly connected to someone important.
posting oot boaby calotypes tae aw the bonny widows 1886
March 27, 2026 at 7:40 PM
posting oot boaby calotypes tae aw the bonny widows 1886
No, it doesn't, nor did I intend to shift the point of this discussion to things like autochromes; and there is no merit to discussing the various "problems" different techniques (e.g. Dauguerrotypes, calotypes, tintypes) had with both rendering, and reproduction.
December 23, 2024 at 9:31 PM
No, it doesn't, nor did I intend to shift the point of this discussion to things like autochromes; and there is no merit to discussing the various "problems" different techniques (e.g. Dauguerrotypes, calotypes, tintypes) had with both rendering, and reproduction.