Technology of historical photographical processes

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Subject guarantor:

Jan Švadlena

Name of lecturer(s):

Jan Švadlena

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Students are acquainted with the technological and chemical bases of historical photographic processes with an emphasis on the issue of the degradation factors of those technologies, The aim is to expand, as well, the knowledge of the students, exploitable for selecting appropriate restoration and conservation procedures.

Mode of study:

The course will be instructed through lectures and exercise, and if possible, as well with the use of the lecture steps of professionals in historical photography technique.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

none

Course contents:

The course content is the beginnings of photochemistry and photographic chemistry; heliography, daguerrotype, salt paper, calotype (talbotype), albumin paper, wet collodion process, materials based on gelatine photograph emulsion, sensitive ferrous salts (calitype, VanDyke, cyanotye?) positive materials based on natural polymer curing (so called noble prints - pigment print, flexography, oil prints, bromoil print, collotype?); color photograph material.

Recommended or required reading:

Barger, M. S., Blake, W. B. The Daguerreotype, Nineteenth-Century Technology and Modern Science. Baltimore,: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Bouček, J., Novák, V. Praktická fotografie. Pro posluchače vysokých škol, fotografy-amatéry a fotografy z povolání. 3. rozšířené vydání. Brno: vlastní náklad, 1935.

Bufka, V. .J. Katechismus fotografie. Praha : Hejda & Tuček, [190?].

Crawford, W. The Keepers of Light. A History & Working Guide To Early Photographic Processes. New York : Morgan & Morgan, 1979.

Hendriks, K. B., et al. Fundamentals of Photograph Conservation : A Study Guide. Toronto : Lugus Publications , 1991.

Milbauer, J., et al. Chemická technologie ? Technická fotografie a její využití v praxi, Praha, 1939.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Individual work of the students will lie in the creation of selected types of historical photo material. Then, along with manual dexterity, primarily, a knowledge of the chemical foundations of those materials and other aspects, and those arising from them will be verified.

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Note:

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Schedule for winter semester 2016/2017:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2016/2017:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Restoring of Photogrphy (qualification subject)