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Albumen prints are photographic prints made from paper coated with a solution of egg white and sodium chloride. A coat of silver nitrate solution is then added to form a light-sensitive layer on the paper.
Wherever the light struck, the paper darkened, but wherever the plant blocked the light, it remained white. He called his new discovery “the art of photogenic drawing.” As his chemistry improved, Talbot returned to his original idea of photographic images made in a camera.
William Henry Fox Talbot was credited as the British inventor of photography. In 1834 he discovered how to make and fix images through the action of light and chemistry on paper. These 'negatives' could be used to make multiple prints and this process revolutionised image making.
A British polymath equally adept in astronomy, chemistry, Egyptology, physics, and philosophy, Talbot spent years inventing a photographic process that created paper negatives, which were then used to make positive prints—the conceptual basis of nearly all photography until the digital age.
This cast plate was used in the ‘letterpress’ printing process where raised areas of metal carry the ink. When photography came into use in the 1840’s it did not alter newspaper reporting because the wood engraving and printing processes of the time could only render solid backs and whites.
The usual process to obtain a positive print involved another sheet of writing paper, which was first soaked in a solution of common table salt, dried, and then brushed on one side with a solution of silver nitrate, making it light-sensitive.
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When photography appeared shortly before 1840, the metal-plate daguerreotype, invented in France, was first to achieve popularity. But the process simultaneously developed in England for capturing an image on a paper negative—from which many positives could be printed—provided the foundation on which photography would build for the next 150 ...
