March 2019

CYANOTYPE March 14, 2019 The cyanotype process was one of the first non-silver technologies used to create photographic images. Originated in the 1840’s, it was not utilised in mainstream photography and was adopted as a copying technique, becoming known by the term “blueprint”, with its blue background reproductions of large architectural and mechanical drawings. Two solutions are prepared for the two-part sensitising process. Material sensitised with the solution is then printed by ultraviolet light. Cyanotype is a negative process – areas […]