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The Colorful Print; Photography before 1843
with Mark Osterman & France Scully Osterman
lecture: Thursday, November 4, 2010 at 7 pm
workshop: Saturday, November 6, 2010 - 9 am to 5 pm
at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin

Before shades of brown became the standard for nineteenth century photographs the earliest experimental printing processes were colorful and often painterly. In this class, participants will gain an understanding of the photogenic drawing, chromatype, and cyanotype photographic printing processes invented by Hercules Florence, W.H.Fox Talbot, Sir John Herschel, and Robert Hunt. For more information and to register, go to the Harry Ransom Center website.

Platinum Printing Workshop
with Ron Cowie
Sat & Sun - November 13 & 14, 2010
George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film, Rochester, NY

Unlock the mysteries of coating and printing the most archival of metal-based photography with master platinum printer Ron Cowie. This workshop includes learning how to make negatives with the most effective density range for platinum and palladium printing. Participants will also examine masterworks of the George Eastman House collection produced by William Willis, Alfred Stieglitz, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Paul Anderson and others. For more information and to register, go to the George Eastman House website.

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Solutions ©Mark Osterman

line art © S&O archives

Altar Stone © France Scully Osterman

tutorials in S&O skylight studio

albumen workshop at f295

early photo workshops at Geo Eastman House

Soho Photo 6th annual Alternative Processes Competition: Call for Entries

Mark Osterman and France Scully Osterman established Scully & Osterman in 1991. Through extensive primary research and practical application, the Ostermans have evolved as historians and modern masters of the wet-plate collodion process.

The current artistic revival of collodion photography is a direct result of their influence, as they were the leaders in exhibiting and publishing their work as artists, openly sharing their knowledge through lectures, publications, workshops and tutorials. Photograph conservators, collectors, museum curators and the most advanced collodion photographers turn to the Ostermans when they have collodion-related questions.

Located in Rochester, NY, Mark is Photographic Process Historian for the Advanced Residency Program at George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film; France works and teaches in their skylight studio.
They are both represented by Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC and Tilt Gallery, Phoenix, AZ.

Some of the other processes we research and use:

- heliographs - physautotypes - daguerreotypes - calotypes - bayard direct positives - albumen-on-glass negatives & lantern slides - ambrotypes & tintypes - wet-plate collodion negatives, dry-plate collodion negatives, preserved collodion negatives - gelatin glass negatives - photogenic drawings - salted paper prints - albumen prints - platinum and palladium prints - carbon - gum bichromate - collodion printing-out paper - gelatin chloride printing-out paper- gelatin developing-out paper- "whey" developing-out prints - solar enlargements...

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