Same Camera, Different Century: Capturing Civil War Sites, 150 Years Later : The Picture Show : NPR
Same Camera, Different Century: Capturing Civil War Sites, 150 Years Later : The Picture Show : NPR
"Believe it or not, there's a lot of food involved in wet-plate photography. Egg whites (albumen) are used to make the glass plates adhesive to the light-sensitive chemicals. And one way to keep the plates from drying out after processing is to coat them in honey. It's also physically demanding, so you get really hungry."
"Believe it or not, there's a lot of food involved in wet-plate photography. Egg whites (albumen) are used to make the glass plates adhesive to the light-sensitive chemicals. And one way to keep the plates from drying out after processing is to coat them in honey. It's also physically demanding, so you get really hungry."