Darkroom Magic: Salt Printing @GeorgeEastmanMuseum
Darkroom Magic: Salt Printing  @GeorgeEastmanMuseum
Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 20 minutes ago
The salt process is the earliest silver-based photographic technique and is used to make photograms, primitive in-camera negatives, and prints from paper and glass negatives.

In this episode of Darkroom Magic, Historic Process Specialist Nick Brandreth shows us how to create these unique prints using salt!

Generous support for this talk provided by Art Bridges.

This video has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: NEH CARES.

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this video, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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