Technology of historical photographical processes 2

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Subject guarantor:

Jan Švadlena

Name of lecturer(s):

Jan Švadlena

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

This course is focused on the acquisition of knowledge about the chemical bases of historical photographic material, its composition, manner of preparation and development so the student will be able to select the appropriate manner of its treatment and archiving.

The course covers the beginnings of photo-chemistry and photographic chemistry; heliography, daguerrotype; photographic paper; calotype (talbotype), albumen paper, wet collodion process, material based on gelatinous photograph emulsions, processes based on sensitive ferrous salts (calitype, VanDyke, Cyanotype?) positive materials base on natural hardening polymers (so called stainless prints - carbon print, flexography, oil print, bromoil print, collotype?); color photograph material.

This course is in the form of lectures and practice exercises in which the students, alone, prepare photograph material of using a selected photographic technique.

Individual work will rest in the creation of a selected type of historical photographic material. Along with the manual dexterity, primarily, knowledge in the area of the fundamentals of the chemistry of these materials, other aspects and those arising from them willl be checked.

Mode of study:

Instruction will be in lecture form and the completion of practical tasks and, when possible, as well with the use of the lecture steps of professionals in historical photographic techniques.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

none

Course contents:

This course is focused on the acquisition of knowledge about the chemical bases of historical photographic material, its composition, manner of preparation and development so the student will be able to select the appropriate manner of its treatment and archiving.

The course covers the beginnings of photo-chemistry and photographic chemistry; heliography, daguerrotype; photographic paper; calotype (talbotype), albumen paper, wet collodion process, material based on gelatinous photograph emulsions, processes based on sensitive ferrous salts (calitype, VanDyke, Cyanotype?) positive materials base on natural hardening polymers (so called stainless prints - carbon print, flexography, oil print, bromoil print, collotype?); color photograph material.

This course is in the form of lectures and practice exercises in which the students, alone, prepare photograph material of using a selected photographic technique.

Individual work will rest in the creation of a selected type of historical photographic material. Along with the manual dexterity, primarily, knowledge in the area of the fundamentals of the chemistry of these materials, other aspects and those arising from them willl be checked.

Curriculum / Program:

1. Historical photography techniques

2. Degradation factors of those techniques

3. Conservation and deposition of those techniques from the chemical technology aspect.

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:

Oral exam at the end of the Winter and Summer semesters 2016.

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Note:

none

Schedule for winter semester 2017/2018:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2017/2018:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Restoring of Photogrphy (qualification subject)