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Cyanotype Workshop

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 Cyanotype workshop The cyanotype is a  historic photographic technique  discovered in 1842 by John Hersc he l .   They are produced using a mix  of Ammonium Ferric Citrate and  Potassium Ferricyanide which together make a  light sensitive emulsion which  is  applied to a surface and then is exposed using ultra violet light (full details in  t echnical journal) .   One of the first photographic books was  Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions   by  Anna Atkins a year later.  Atkins used the light sensitive surface  to make photograms of dried seaweed.      Plate from   Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions Reference :         Sun Gardens: The Cyanotypes of Anna Atkins   by   Larry J. Schaaf     Other contemporary artists have explored the medium   further. They hav...