Photography

Silver, platinum, cyanotype, and dye — the chemistry of captured light.

14 profiles · 14 eras

Daguerreotype1839–1860

Calotype / Salt Print1841–1860

Wet Collodion / Ambrotype1851–1880

Albumen Print1850–1900

Cyanotype1842–present

Carbon Print1855–1940

Platinum / Palladium Print1873–present

Autochrome Lumière1907–1935

Kodachrome1935–2010

Ektachrome1946–present

Fujichrome Velvia1990–present

Kodak Portra1998–present

Polaroid / Instant Film1948–present

Infrared Film1910–present