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blueprint
(redirected from cyanotype)

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Blueprint
1. A construction plan. It is called a blueprint because it historically has been printed on blue paper with white lines.

2. In photography, a copy of a periodical printed before final editing in which images are shown on blue paper.

3. Informal, a plan.

blueprint

A detailed set of plans used as a guide for construction.Because of the economies of a very inexpensive method of creating and copying such plans, they were formerly characterized by white lines on blue paper.



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They questioned where they were taken from and what they meant to them while trying to relate them to the cyanotypes that they experimented with and a more contemporary way of working.
Along with the gelatin silver prints that account for the majority of the images, some of the historic processes on display include daguerreotypes, cyanotypes, albumen prints, cabinet cards, stereographs, photograms, cartes-de-visite, carbon prints, boudoir cards, platinum prints, and Fresson prints.
Forms of alternative process prints include (but are not limited to): Cyanotype, Van Dyke Brown, Tintype, Brornoil, Platinum, Palladium and Polaroid(C) image transfer.
 
 
 
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