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What is a cyanotype?

What is a cyanotype? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (uncountable) An early photographic process employing paper sensitized with a cyanide.
  2. (countable) A photographic print produced by means of this process.
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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.

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