All About Albumen Prints: A Resource for Students and Photo Collectors

In episode 36 of the Fine Art Photography Podcast, all about
albumen prints. Intended as a resource for students, photography
collectors, or photographers interested in historical
processes.


I'll cover these main points: 1) What is an albumen print? 2)
Appearance of albumen prints; 3) Longevity of albumen prints; and
4) I'll read an 1860 step-by-step process for creating
albumen paper.


Time Codes


01:21 - What is an Albumen Print


06:25 - Appearance of Albumen Prints


10:19 - Longevity of Albumen Prints


11:38 - Circa 1860 Step-by-Step Process for Making Albumen Paper


See samples of albumen prints here:
https://icatchshadows.com/all-about-albumen-prints/
Sources and Links

Episode: Southworth & Hawes: America’s Early Masters of the
Daguerreotype Portrait
https://anchor.fm/keith-dotson/episodes/Southworth–Hawes-Americas-Early-Masters-of-the-Daguerreotype-Portrait-eihpsk


Albumen print, Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albumen_print


The Albumen Print: Photographic Processes, George Eastman House,
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq1RvahEPSk&ab_channel=GeorgeEastmanMuseum


Eastman House, 60,000 Eggs a Day
https://web.archive.org/web/20160304084043/http://image.eastmanhouse.org/files/GEH_1955_04_04.pdf


The Oakland Museum of California
https://museumca.org/exhibit/inspiration-points-masterpieces-california-landscape


The Photographic News, “On the Preparation of Positive Paper,”
June 29, 1860, p.101, M. Aleo
https://cool.culturalheritage.org/albumen/library/c19/aleo.html


Eadweard Muybridge, Untitled photograph of the Pigeon Point
Lighthouse, The Oakland Museum of California
http://collections.museumca.org/?q=collection-item/a72224


Or get a better look here (flickr)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/14096169@N07/1517810098/


Rochester Institute of Technology, “The History, Technique and
Structure of Albumen Prints,” James M. Reilly, 1980
https://cool.culturalheritage.org/albumen/library/c20/reilly1980.html


Wikipedia Commons, “Valley of the Yosemite, from Rocky Ford,
1872,” Eadweard J. Muybridge
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eadweard_J._Muybridge_(American,_born_England_-_Valley_of_the_Yosemite,_from_Rocky_Ford_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg