Cyanotype Workshop - Camille Soulayrol, Marie Venditteli

Cyanotype is a creative technique that produces blueprints using photosensitive paper, light and water rather than a camera. The process was discovered by the scientist and astronomer Sir John Herschel in 1841; it was first used to reproduce mathematical tables and diagrams, then copies of architectural drawings, which is where the term ‘blueprint’ comes from. Herschel’s friend, the botanist Anna Atkins, used the process for book illustration, effectively producing the world’s first photographically... Zobrazit více