Alternative Process Photography in the Digital Age – Penumbra Foundation

B&H Photography Podcast

Jill Waterman

Podcast, Photography, Arts, Visual Arts, Bh, Photo

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Wet-Collodion, Daguerreotype, Tintype, Calotype, Gum Bichromate, Van Dyke Brown. Oh my! On this week’s podcast, we welcome Geoffrey Berliner, Executive Director of the Penumbra Foundation, and photographer Jolene Lupo, to talk about alternative process photography. The Penumbra Foundation is an exceptional organization, dedicated to the art, science, and history of photography and Berliner outlines their history and mission and the workshops and facilities they make available to all photographers, while Lupo discusses her tintype work at Penumbra and her Spirit Photography. This episode is a true education, not just on the various alternative processes, but on the history of photography and on how learning the original pre-film processes will improve your digital photography. Guests: Geoffrey Berliner and Jolene Lupo Photograph by Jolene Lupo

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0:00.0	You're listening to the BNH Photography Podcast.
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0:08.8	more.
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0:15.4	your iPhone or Android device.
0:17.6	Now here's your host, Alan White's.
0:20.2	Greetings and welcome to the BNH Photography Podcast.
0:24.0	Film sales are down and most of the processing labs I used to patronize are long gone and
0:28.6	it's understandable.
0:29.9	Digital cameras and the pictures they take keep getting better and better.
0:33.1	What's interesting is that there are also a growing number of photographers who have been
0:36.3	tinkering with imaging technologies that predate film, some dating back to the earliest days
0:41.2	of photography.
0:42.6	These processes include platinum printing, daguerreotypes, calotypes, tin types, bromoyle
0:47.4	carbon, cyanotypes, gun bicromate, palladium, and others.
0:52.5	This is a world in which you are an active participant every step of the way.
0:55.9	This is no such thing as automatic or program mode when it comes to alternative process
1:00.1	photography.
1:01.6	Today John Harrison and I have two guests in our studio.
1:04.8	Jeffrey Bolinner is the executive director of the Penumbra Foundation and the Center for
1:09.2	Alternative Photography, a nonprofit organization dedicated to photographic arts and education.
1:15.8	Jeff also owns what has to be the largest collection of old school brass lenses on
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