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TonyMiller
26th February 2016, 12:01 PM
Interesting article about cyanotypes.

“They were so easy they almost didn’t count, almost like polaroids of the ’70s and ’80s,” co-curator Nancy Burns told Hyperallergic. “And the fine arts establishment turned its nose on something that was so easy.

“The fact that they were blue was also just too weird for people — that the idea of what a photograph was supposed to look like was black and white … but blue was just too bizarre,” she added. “But last but not least, is that they were used for making blueprints — that you could make cyanotypes as not just a photograph, but you can use it to transfer a drawing or text. And because it has an association with something so pedestrian and being used as a photocopier, it didn’t quite make it into the earliest histories of photography because people weren’t entirely convinced that they were photographs.”

See some great examples at:

hyperallergic.com/272915/photographys-blue-period-gets-its-first-major-show-in-the-us/ (http://hyperallergic.com/272915/photographys-blue-period-gets-its-first-major-show-in-the-us/)

photomi7ch
27th February 2016, 12:16 PM
What does the establishment know anyway. :)