May 5, 2026 · 20 min · 12 segments
This episode is the story of two artists, two very different approaches and a almost two hundred year old photographic process called Cyanotype or blue printing. Join us as we journey to take a look…
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Cyanotype is a photographic process that was invented in the mid-1800s, not long after the invention of photography itself.
Cyanotypes are also known as blueprints, which was the way you duplicated architectural plans back in the day, and this is where I first encountered cyanotypes.
One of my earliest jobs was in an architectural woodworking company, and it was my role to have copies of blueprints made at an architectural firm in Pittsburgh.
That was four decades ago, but my memories are still vivid of getting the copies fresh from the blueprint machine, warm and still reeking of ammonia.
These days, cyanotype is used mostly as an art form, but artists like Patty Gaddis still have to know their way around a bit of chemistry.
Cyanotype is a photographic process that was invented in the mid-1800s, not long after the invention of photography itself.
Cyanotypes are also known as blueprints, which was the way you duplicated architectural plans back in the day, and this is where I first encountered cyanotypes.
One of my earliest jobs was in an architectural woodworking company, and it was my role to have copies of blueprints made at an architectural firm in Pittsburgh.
That was four decades ago, but my memories are still vivid of getting the copies fresh from the blueprint machine, warm and still reeking of ammonia.
These days, cyanotype is used mostly as an art form, but artists like Patty Gaddis still have to know their way around a bit of chemistry.
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