It is a cyanotype print on washi rice paper that spans 20 feet of wall. |
Breuer revives historic formats — the cyanotype, the photogram, the gum-bichromate print — to honor and carry on the spirit of experimentation that characterized the medium's early years. |
Atkins employed cyanotype to record all the specimens of algae found in the British Isles. |
For almost a century, the blueprint or cyanotype process was used most frequently to reproduce architectural drawings. |
Prints made upon this cyanotype paper have a beautiful blue tone, and are so simple and easily made that they are very popular. |
To see New York through cyanotype prints of the late 19th and early 20th centuries is to behold a dreamscape of almost-familiar scenes rendered in a very unfamiliar palette, neither silver nor sepia. |