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Cyanotypes


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    • found: Work cat: Halloran, L. Your body is a space that sees, 2019:author's website (Cyanotype prints that sources historical imagery and narratives to trace contributions of women in astronomy since antiquity. Cyanotypes are printed from painted negatives that are based on the objects and narratives that were connected to these early astronomers. This process mimics early astronomical glass plates moving between transparent surfaces to a photograph without the use of a camera.) (UkOxU)022585613
    • found: Schaaf, L. Sun gardens, 2018 :t.p. (cyanotypes by Anna Atkins)
    • found: Science & Media Museum website, July 8, 2021(Introduction to the cyanotype process. The process was eminently suited to its traditional role in reproducing technical drawings, its most common use in engineering and architecture until the advent of modern photocopiers. However, it was a versatile process, and was used throughout the 19th century from Anna Atkins' photograms of plants and seaweed for her books on botany (1843--55) to Henri LeSecq's still life studies of the 1850s. Photographers at the end of the century used cyanotype paper for proofing negatives.)
    • found: Wikipedia, July 8, 2021(Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. Engineers used the process well into the 20th century as a simple and low-cost process to produce copies of drawings, referred to as blueprints. Anna Atkins created a series of cyanotype limited-edition books that documented ferns and other plant life from her extensive seaweed collection placing specimens directly onto coated paper and allowing the action of light to create a silhouette effect.)
    • found: Art & architecture thesaurus online, viewed Aug. 4, 2021(cyanotypes (photographic prints); BT photographic prints by process (guide term); scope note: Blue-toned photographic prints produced by the blueprint process, not including reproductive prints of architectural or other technical drawings; for these, use "blueprints" or "blueline prints.")

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