Collodion

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So, and just another question here on your background, before we start talking in depth in Collodion, we had mentioned that you were a gallery manager for, is it Aramont School of Arts?

Yes.

Okay.

All right.

Well, let's move into more on the creative side.

And maybe this is just me, but sometimes I feel like Collodion doesn't get a fair shake in kind of modern photographic awards.

You know, maybe there's this gap in using the process and being creative with the process.

A little later, there was a substance produced by dissolving gun cotton in a mixture of ether and alcohol.

The resulting material was called collodion, being so named from its adhesive qualities.

Collodion was very soon used in surgery to form a film over wounds and thus prevent contact with air.

Several scientists suggested that collodion might be used for holding the chemicals on the photographic plate.

It remained, however, for a London sculptor, Frederick Scott Archer, to bring these suggestions into practical form.

A Visit to the Blockmakers.

How the Blocks are Made for the Printer.

A Demonstration of Scott Archer's Wet Collodion Process.