Platinum / Palladium Print
1873–presentThe most beautiful photographic prints — noble metals embedded in paper fiber. Warm greys with infinite subtlety.
Iron salts reduce to platinum or palladium metal within paper fibers. Image is IN the paper, not ON it.
1 artist6 colors
Platinum/Palladium Process
International
Favored by Stieglitz, Strand, Weston. The gold standard of fine art photography. Still practiced today.
Platinum sits within paper fiber — no surface coating. This gives an extraordinary matte quality and tonal subtlety impossible in silver prints.