{"id":483,"date":"2019-03-06T09:21:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T17:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/?p=483"},"modified":"2019-03-06T09:21:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T17:21:07","slug":"amazing-still-life-from-1860-by-roger-fenton-who-worked-to-promote-photography-as-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"Amazing still life from 1860 by Roger Fenton who worked to promote photography as art."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wet plate collodion photography seems to be having a bit of a revival these days, and I have a number of friends working with that media. I&#8217;ve tried it, taking a workshop from Alan Barnes,  and there&#8217;s a lot of skill required. Beyond getting good chemistry, there&#8217;s an art to the pouring and exposure that can only be mastered by few.  It&#8217;s rare to see a complete plate without flaws, and getting good dynamic range is hard. That&#8217;s why I was so stunned when I first saw the still life work by Roger Fenton. He captured his still life images on Collodion plate and made albumen prints.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nga.gov\/collection\/highlights\/fenton-fruit-and-flowers.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historic.camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/banner-fenton-fruit-flowers.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Roger Fenton\u2019s photographic still life Fruit and Flowers (1860) is among the last images he made before quitting photography for good at age 41.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wet plate collodion photography seems to be having a bit of a revival these days, and I have a number of friends working with that media. I&#8217;ve tried it, taking a workshop from Alan Barnes, and there&#8217;s a lot of skill required. Beyond getting good chemistry, there&#8217;s an art to the pouring and exposure that can only be mastered by few. It&#8217;s rare to see a complete plate without flaws, and getting good dynamic range is hard. That&#8217;s why I<a class=\"entry-more\" href=\"http:\/\/historic.camera\/?p=483\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,234,105],"tags":[237,195,236,121,235],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analog-print","category-historical","category-photographers","tag-albumen","tag-art","tag-collodion","tag-famous-photographers","tag-history"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}