Before Colour: The First Photographic Plates

Light writes itself: Niépce and Daguerre to dry plates and tintypes. The glass-and-silver plates that had to exist before colour could — museum process films, Anna Atkins, and the archivists who still keep them alive.

Playlist by @color_plate_birth

14 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. The Birth of Photography: Drawing With Light (and silver iodide) — Technology Connections
2. The Daguerreotype - Photographic Processes Series - Chapter 2 of 12 — George Eastman Museum
3. The Cyanotype - Photographic Processes Series - Chapter 4 of 12 — George Eastman Museum
4. Anna Atkins & the World's First Photo Book - Objectivity 5 — Objectivity
5. Linnean Lens: Anna Atkins’ Cyanotype Impressions — Linnean Society
6. History of Tintype Photography | The Henry Ford's Innovation Nation — The Henry Ford
7. Wet Plate Collodion Photography Demo — James Pearson
8. Learning the Tin Type Wet Plate Photo Process from a Master! — Coastal Film Lab
9. Storing glass plate negatives — National Museum of Australia
10. Archives Behind the Scenes - Unboxing a glass plate negative — MHNSW - State Archives Collection
11. How A 90-Year-Old Photograph Is Professionally Conserved | Refurbished — Insider
12. History of Photography Overview — Tyler Gathro
13. Digitising Ambrotypes and Daguerreotypes — History Trust of South Australia
14. The Ambrotype, a Touchstone of L.A. History — Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM)