Albumen prints outnumber any other type of photographic positive made during the nineteenth century. They have a sepia color and slightly glossy surface.
Albumen redirects here. For other uses see Albumen (disambiguation). For the musician, see Eg White.
An egg yolk surrounded by the egg white.
Albumen paper - printing paper invented by Blanquart-Evrard in the mid-19th century where egg whites were used to coat the paper base prior to sensitization.
The albumen print, also called albumen silver print, was invented in 1850 by Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard, and was the first commercially exploitable method of producing a photographic print on a paper base from a negative.
Because many photographers were intentionally not washing well or were messing with the fixing bath when processing albumen prints, everyone hears that bad processing is the root of all deterioration.
In a few short years film will be a specialty item carried only by a few Internet companies that cater to photographers exploring historic processes such as platinum and albumen prints.
So too, the brown-and-white albumen print, the muted tones of the calotype and even the murky image of tintypes.
A cousin of Joseph Niepce, Claude decided in 1847 to coat glass with a mixture of silver nitrate and egg whites (albumen). What a fantastic idea this turned out to be, because it very effectively jumped the hurtle that Talbot couldn't.
colloid
water-soluble, non-crystalline substances such as gelatin, glue, or albumen, of very fine granule size, used as vehicles in photomechanical sensitizers in screen printing and made light-sensitive by the addition of a bichromate.
It used weak collodion negatives which were bleached and backed by a black background which produced the effect of a positive image. 19th Century process based on an underexposed albumen on glass negative.
Horror of horrors, I've heard that the latest Nikon software can't even read the NEFs from older cameras and that you need to load older software to read them. Just like raw eggs, unless you process it into something like an egg-albumen print or a ...
 See also: Photograph, Album, Image, Time, Film
  
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