Paris, 8 Cyanotypes

The Summer before the Pandemic

These photographs were taken with a Busch Pressman camera, manufactured in Chicago in the 1950's. The camera produces 4 x 5-inch (approximately 10 x 13 cm) negatives.

Digital internegatives were created and these were contact printed using Ultraviolet light onto Canson Montvale Aquarelle paper. The paper was hand coated with a liquid Cyanotype solution that made it photosensitive.

The Cyanotype process was discovered by the English scientist John Herschel in 1842 and was popular in the second half of the 19th century. The monuments shown in these photographs in Paris date from the same period.