Now that you've accumulated a ton of negatives to work from by shooting four rolls of film in the 1st quarter, it's time to use them for something totally new...the alternative processes! I'll demonstrate the process for making a cyanotype this week in class, but in the meantime, start to think about negatives you'd life to work with.A brief overview of the cyanotype: Discovered by Sir John Hershel (1792-1871) in 1842, a mere 3 years after the “official” announcement of the discovery of photography, the cyanotype was the first non-silver iron process. This alternative process provided photographers with permanent images in an assortment if blue values. A cyanotype is an ultraviolet (UV) sensitive contact printing process that requires, as do most of the non-silver processes, a negative the same size as the final print. Of course you can use transparent, translucent, or opaque objects to make a cyanotype photogram. Combining both processes of using a negative and various objects (like photograms!) to print can allow even more freedom in the printing!
When making a cyanotype, you will need a negative the same size as the final image. This means that you will be using your ortho-litho film to create large negatives, up to 8x10" large. You may even want to tile several 8x10" ortho-lithos together to create an even larger cyanotype! Check out the slideshow below to get some cool ideas for things you might try with this process!
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