The Cyanotype on Glass: History, Technical Variations and Dialog with Arts
The Cyanotype on Glass: History, Technical Variations and Dialog with Arts

Summary/Abstract: The paper explores and discusses the cyanotype process on glass. Being the first academic article on the subject, the research goes through 19th-century written sources, analyses processes in the history of photography, compares technical variations, and finds five antique cyanotype transparencies in museum collections. Furthermore, it compares methods of contemporary practitioners and discusses such photographs of relics in the Duomo Museum in Florence. The works open a dialog between ontological theories on photography, symbolism of blue color, and expressive means of art glass.

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