Albumen print
The primary photographic print up until about 1890. Invented by Louis-Désiré Blanquart-évrard (1802-1872) in 1850, the method fell out of favor only when gelatin coated papers were introduced.
albumen print - A paper for making photographic prints, on which egg whites (albumen) coated the paper in order to increase its sensitivity, adding to the brightness of whites in the picture.
Albumen Print
This printing process is used in photography printing processes. Egg whites are used in the emulsion.
Alternative Process
This photography term covers approximately 35 different processes for the final unconventional effect.
Albumen Print: An albumen print is created by the process developed by Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard in 1850, which uses egg whites and photographic chemicals to produce a print on paper from a negative.
Albumen Print - The albumen print was the first commercially viable method of producing a print on paper from a negative ...more info ...
Glass negatives were ideal for printing albumen prints, the most common photographic print process from the mid-1850s through the 1880s.
Hence, at the request of a client, many portrait photographers collaborated with artists who hand-tinted daguerreotypes and calotypes or painted over albumen prints in oils.
 See also: Plate, Painting, Photography, Size, Variety
  
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