A nineteenth-century method of producing photographic negatives using a glass plate coated with a silver emulsion. While relatively inexpensive and enabling quick exposure times, this method required the entire process from plate preparation to developing to be completed within fifteen minutes, making it unsuitable for portable photography.
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Also spelt gad, it is a type of block used in textile block-printing. The image in the block is carved…
A tool made from shaping human or animal bone and used by prehistoric people as tools as well as to…
Film cameras that produce images larger than 24 mm x 36 mm but smaller than 4 inches x 5 inches.
A camera with a single piece of glass or loaded with single pieces of film coated with light-sensitive chemicals. These…
A photographic negative created on paper, rather than on modern cellulose film or a glass plate. William Henry Fox Talbot's…
A multi-thread machine used to create machine embroidery and lace, invented in 1893 by Swiss inventor Isaak Grobli. The term…
A camera that allows the photographer to view the subject through the lens while simultaneously seeing the image that will…
A wooden implement, it comprises vertical rods fixed on a plank around which the warp thread is wound.