The Photographic Archive was very pleased to host a three-day workshop on the History of Photography in October 2007, run by Giulia Cucinella Briant and Lorenzo Scaramella:

Care and identification of non-silver photographic printing processes.

The course was held on the following days:

During the workshop the following issues have been addressed :

• Origin of non-silver photographic printing processes.
• Use of bichromate salts: carbon print and gum bichromate print.
• The collotype printing process.
• Ferric iron salts techniques: cyanotypes, platinum prints, kallitypes.
• Toning processes.
• Identification and conservation of non-silver photographic printing processes.

Number of attendees: 32

Giulia Cucinella Briant, consultant for the conservation and restoration of photographic material. Teaches in Paris at the Institut National du Patrimoine (INP) .

Lorenzo Scaramella, photographer and professor of History of Photography at the University Suor Orsola Benincasa in Naples.

La luce dell’ombra

Photographs by Lorenzo Scaramella

In February 2007 the BSR Archive hosted a well-attended and very successful exhibition of 70 photographs, La Luce dell'ombra: fotografie di Lorenzo Scaramella. Scaramella, an expert in historic of photographic techniques who teaches at Naples University and has collaborated with the Archive for a few years, specialises in photographing Greek and Roman, Renaissance and Baroque sculpture in Italian museums, which he then prints using various nineteenth-century printing techniques. The depth and beauty of the images derive from the choice of a specific printing technique to create a particular effect which emanates from his study of the individual work of art. The historical printing processes used include: salted paper prints, platinum prints, silver gelatin prints, gum bichromate prints and kallitypes.

21 February- 8 March 2007

 The British School at Rome
Via A. Gramsci, 61

Rome