I've put together a collection of links on Sir John Herschel for our event, "A Tribute to Sir John Herschel." If you know of any additional sources, please share them. www.alternativephotography.com/sir-john-her... Please also comment what your favourite "Herschel discovery" is... - ThreadSky

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alternativephoto.bsky.social • 28 days ago

I've put together a collection of links on Sir John Herschel for our event, "A Tribute to Sir John Herschel." If you know of any additional sources, please share them.
https://www.alternativephotography.com/sir-john-herschel/
Please also comment what your favourite "Herschel discovery" is...

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carrieannearts.bsky.social•28 days ago

Love that you’ve made this collection. I’ve been using cyanotypes for about 10 years. I’m very curious about his other work.

alternativephoto.bsky.social•26 days ago

You’re welcome! Yes, he experimented with so many things! Anthotypes, chrysotypes… much more

alternativephoto.bsky.social•28 days ago

My (Malin Fabbris) favourite Herschel discoveries are: Anthotypes, Cyanotypes and the word 'Snapshot'. You?

georgsedlmeir.bsky.social•27 days ago

„Snapshot“ and even „Photograph“ (!) were stunning discoveries for me.

alternativephoto.bsky.social•26 days ago

Did he coin ”photograph ”? I did not know that!

georgsedlmeir.bsky.social•26 days ago

This is from Wikipedia (Photograph, Etymology): „The word photograph was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek φῶς (phos), meaning "light", and γραφή (graphê), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light".“

alternativephoto.bsky.social•24 days ago

Very interesting!

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