Scully & Osterman, Rochester, New York

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 a wide variety of historic (alternative) photography, most notably, wet and dry plate collodion processes. The current artistic revival of collodion photography is a direct result of their influence.

They were the leaders in exhibiting and publishing their work as artists in the early 1990s, 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.

These are some of the books and periodicals in which S&O images and writings are published:

2021  Workshop Stories, Elizabeth Opalenick
2021  Don't Press Print: De/Re-Constructing the Collodion Process, Royal Photographic Society
 
2017  New Dimensions In Photo Processes: A Step-by-Step Manual for Alternative Techniques,  Laura Blacklow 
2017. Salted Paper Printing, Christina Z. Anderson 
2009 & 2017. Photographic Possibilities (third & fourth editions) Robert Hirsch, Focal Press.
2015. Das Kollodium, Peter Michels
2015  Alternative Photographic Processes, Brady Wilks
2014. Photography Beyond Technique, Tom Persinger 
2012. Dans L’Atelier Du Photographe, Anne Cartier-Bresson
2011. Reconstructions, Klaus B Staubermann, Nat'l Museums Scotland, Edinburgh.
2008. Le Vocabulaire Technique de la Photographie  Anne Cartier-Bresson, Marval, Paris Musées.
2008. The Darkroom Cookbook (third edition) Steve Anchell, Focal Press.
2007. The New Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, Michael R. Peres, Editor-in-Chief, 
            Focal Press. Editor & writer, responsible for entire pre-1900 section.
2007. Imagining Paradise, Sheila Foster, Manfred Heiting, Rachel Stuhlman. Published by Steidl.
 
           Three chapters: Going by the Book, Paper Sample Books and 19th c. Photographic Journals
2007. L’Album Simart, Hans P. Kraus, Jr. and Edwynn Houk Gallery, publishers. A Technical Note.
2006. Coatings on Photographs, Connie McCabe. Published by the Photographic Materials Group
              of the American Institute of Conservation.  Chapter on Burnishing.
2002 & 2007. The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes Christopher James, Delmar Publishers. 	
2004. Double Exposure, Issue #1,  Rob Shepherd and Chad Jarvis, Photohumanism: Artifacts of a
 		Photographic Movement, by Mark Osterman and France Scully Osterman
2000. Coming into Focus, John Barnier, Chronicle Books. Wet-Plate Collodion chapter.

The Ostermans teaching the first Collodion Workshops at George Eastman Museum, March 1995