Abstract

With the rise in digital photography -- and the shift in photography's materiality -- it has become increasingly important to revisit photographs and reconsider them as multifaceted objects, and not simply as two-dimensional images. In this applied thesis project, the Art Gallery of Ontario's John Richmond Harris study collection was used as the basis for creating a presentation set of fifteen different 19th and 20th century positive photographic processes. With specially constructed archival housings and concise didactic labels accompanying each photograph, this presentation set aims to enable learning about the identification of photographic processes through the use of original examples, while encouraging the consideration of photography's material qualities, to help the user better understand photography's past social and cultural function.

Highlights

  • Willumson claims that in order to gain a complete understanding of the object, it is necessary to provide the viewer with access to the objects material form—in other words, all possible visual clues—as is the case with a study collection/presentation set of this kind

  • Joe Struble, Archivist of the Photo Collection at George Eastman House (GEH), created this collection for the purpose of illustrating the different types of photomechanical reproductions contained in GEHs holdings

  • In the mid 1890s, albumens popularity declined being replaced by industrially manufactured gelatin and collodion printing-out papers (POPs)

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Summary

A PRESENTATION SET OF 19th and 20th CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES FROM THE

ART GALLERY OF ONTARIOS HARRIS STUDY COLLECTION by Sara Keane Bachelor of Arts, Honours - University of Western Ontario, London, ON, 2007. I authorize Ryerson University, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film to lend this thesis to other institutions or individuals for the purpose of scholarly research. I further authorize Ryerson University to reproduce this thesis by photocopying or by other means in total or in part, at the request of other institutions or individuals for the purpose of scholarly research. A PRESENTATION SET OF 19th and 20th CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES FROM THE ART GALLERY OF ONTARIOS HARRIS STUDY COLLECTION Master of Arts, 2011 Sara Keane Photographic Preservation and Collections Management Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario in coordination with the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, and George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, New York

Section I: Introduction
Section II: Literature Review
Section III: Methodology and Summary of Work
Section IV: Concluding Remarks
Daguerreotype
Salted Paper Print
Cyanotype
Albumen
Ambrotype
Tintype
Carbon Print
Photogravure
Woodburytype
B.10 Gelatin Printing-Out Paper Print
B.11 Collodion Printing-Out Paper Print
B.12 Gelatin Silver (Developed-Out) Print
B.13 Gelatin Silver (Developed-Out) Print – Resin-Coated (RC)
B.14 Autochrome
B.15 Chromogenic Print
B.16 Polaroid Print
Section VII: Bibliography

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