MY ANTIQUE HISTORY

Found this essay from a year ago
about my love of old things, long
before I became an old thing.

#Antiques #Vintage #Old #Books #Reading #19thCentury #Photography #GlassNegative #History

#Photography
#glassnegative
An original from my "Archive"
The Voisin VIII is a French two-seat #biplane #pusher.
#Aéroplanes-Voisin was a French aircraft manufacturing company est. in 1905 by Gabriel Voisin and his brother Charles, and was continued by Gabriel after Charles died in 1912.

Antique Retouching Desk Was Photoshop for 19th Century Photographers Photographer Markus Hofstätter, whose creative analog photography projects have been featured on PetaPixel many times, recently tried his hand at manual retouching using an antique retouching desk from the 19th century. [Read More]

Antique Retouching Desk Was Photoshop for 19th Century Photographers Photographer Markus Hofstätter, whose creative analog photography projects have been featured on PetaPixel many times, recently tried his hand at manual retouching using an antique retouching desk from the 19th century. [Read More]

Antique Retouching Desk Was Photoshop for 19th Century Photographers Photographer Markus Hofstätter, whose creative analog photography projects have been featured on PetaPixel many times, recently tried his hand at manual retouching using an antique retouching desk from the 19th century. [Read More]

I bought some glass negatives. I finally got around to scanning them. #glassnegative

FOTOGRAFIC HISTORY

GLASS NEGATIVES

A friend who knew of my interest in fotografy in 1983, gave me a 19th Century Glass Negative of a strange still life shoe hanging by a chord. I researched it and found its Civil War history.
#Photography #PhotoHistory #History #GlassNegative

Church Lane, Knaresborough, back in the day #ChurchLane #Knaresborough #glassnegative #bnw #mono

A glass negative made with the wet collodion process

I am always amazed by the quality of wet collodion glass negatives.
Look at this contrast - going to print this one very soon…

#collodion #analogphotography #glassnegative #silveronglass #analog #handmadephotography

Church Lane, Knaresborough c1920 the "quaint" cottages were slums and demolished in the 1920s #Knaresborough #glassnegative #negative #photography #monochrome