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Painting on photographs


 
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Where the line between media disappears. Explore works where the photograph serves merely as a structural guide for heavy over-painting, creating a unique hybrid that challenges the authority of the camera and the brush.

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1Improving content on photographic techniques
Introduction
2Introduction to painting on photographs
3The Remuneration of Art in America. Crayon Photographs (1882)
Colouring kits and patents
4Nineteenth century photograph colouring kits
Patents for colouring photographs
5Frederick Langenheim: Patents for Coloring Daguerreotype Plates
6Patent: To Richard Beard. of Earl-street, Blackfriars, Gent., for improvements in the means of obtaining likenesses
Examples of painted photographs
7Painted daguerreotypes
8Painted salt prints
9Painted ambrotypes
10Painted albumen prints
11Painted cartes de visite
12Cabinet cards: Painted
13Painted stereoviews
14Bi-colored stereoviews
15Painted tintypes
16Painted gelatin silver prints
Examples of toned photographs
17Gelatin silver prints: Sepia-toned
Regional styles
18Hand-coloured photographs from the Indian sub-continent
19Baron Raimund von Stillfried: Portraits from China
20Helen Edlund: Swedish folk costumes
Colourists, retouchers and artists
21Nineteenth century Japanese artists and colourists
22John Thomson: A Chinese portrait artist, Hong Kong
Painted photographs by known artists
23Painted photographs by known artists
24Louis Pierson: Painted portraits of the Countess of Castiglione
Photojournalism and painting on photographs
25Press photographs with paint or instructions
Contemporary photographer / artists
26Peter Beard: Mixed-media collages and collaborative works

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