The Dry Plate Diaries Part 2

Jason Lane, of Pictoriographica and J Lane Dry Plate fame, discusses the history and use of Dry Plates.

For my MA Photography course I am making work about Edward Mudge, a photographer who was prolific in Fawley and surrounding areas for many decades. As Mudge used dry plates I will also be using dry plates.

I want to thank Jason for taking the time to talk with me, and for all that he does for the dry plate photographers of the world.

Useful links:

https://www.pictoriographica.com/
https://www.pictoriographica.com/wher... (Store Locator by Country)
https://analoguewonderland.co.uk/coll...
  / 1428512583937923   (Dry Plate Photographers Group)
https://jonisternbach.com/
https://www.instagram.com/pictoriogra...

If you would like to support my work:

You can get a free roll of film for yourself, and support this work, by using this referral link to Analogue Wonderland. I don't buy ALL of my photography supplies from them, but I do use them a lot so am very happy to recommend them to you.
http://i.refs.cc/wxs20sQm?smile_ref=e...

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References:

When Jason mentioned seeing wet plate work and being inspired by it several years ago I immediately thought of the photographs of surfers by Joni Sternbach. The images I shared of hers can be found here: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/201...

The archive of Edward Mudge mentioned several times, and the screen shared of New Forest Knowledge can be found here:
https://nfknowledge.org/contributions...|39:1:1|40:1:1

The ambrotype of the cat is by Jason Lane was shared to the Facebook group and can be found here:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...

The Pictoriographica blog pages which list the batch information and characteristic curves:
https://www.pictoriographica.com/dry-...

Jason Lane's post about the plates of the moon:
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

The photograph of the Mount Wilson Observatory can be accessed here:
https://www.discoverlosangeles.com/th...

You can learn more about Victorian Photographers in Southampton (including Mudge) and Richard LEach Maddox in particular here:
http://www.southamptonvictorianphotog...

The BBC Radio documentary looking at "The Cloud" and investigating what it actually is can be heard here:
Under The Cloud https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000...

All of these links were accessed 08/06/21