HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES

FINE ART - RESEARCH - EDUCATION - PUBLICATION





Scully & Osterman announce a special fundraising event


Tintypes for Haiti


Saturday, February 20, 2010
S&O skylight studio, Rochester, New York

click for details




2010


- gallery & exhibits

- workshops:

Wet-Plate Collodion

Albumen Printing


Photogenic Drawing

[special preview of
workshop at Lacock Abbey!}


- wet-plate collodion tutorials

custom classes


- publications


- custom printing


- wet-plate collodion info


- salt print info


- the medicine show


- hospitality


- contact information


- bios


- links

 

 

 

 

 

 




Light Mist, © France Scully Osterman


line art © S&O archives


The Rhodes Incident ©Mark Osterman




S&O on Freestyle Cover
Click to read article








Burnished © Mark Osterman

Click on the Freestyle cover above to read our article, The Lure of Collodion.

Do you have a collodion or historic process-related question for us? - Click here to post your question.

 

Mark Osterman and France Scully Osterman established Scully & Osterman in 1991. Through extensive primary research and practical application, the Ostermans have evolved as historians and modern masters of the wet-plate collodion process.

The current artistic revival of collodion photography is a direct result of their influence, as they were the leaders in exhibiting and publishing their work as artists, openly sharing their knowledge through lectures, publications, workshops and tutorials. Photograph conservators, collectors, museum curators and the most advanced collodion photographers turn to the Ostermans when they have collodion-related questions.

Located in Rochester, NY, Mark is Photographic Process Historian for the Advanced Residency Program at George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film; France works and teaches in their skylight studio.
They are both represented by Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC and Tilt Gallery, Phoenix, AZ.





all images on this website are ©2009 Scully & Osterman unless otherwise indicated


Some of the other processes we research and use:

- heliographs - physautotypes - daguerreotypes - calotypes - bayard direct positives - albumen-on-glass negatives & lantern slides - ambrotypes & tintypes - wet-plate collodion negatives, dry-plate collodion negatives, preserved collodion negatives - gelatin glass negatives - photogenic drawings - salted paper prints - albumen prints - platinum and palladium prints - carbon - gum bichromate - collodion printing-out paper - gelatin chloride printing-out paper- gelatin developing-out paper- "whey" developing-out prints - solar enlargements...



This website is still under construction. Thanks for your patience.