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Past Exhibitions | Legacy of Light | Glossary

Glossary

Also see our Early Photography Highlights.

A

Additive color process color plate
Agfacolor (See chromogenic process color print)
Albumen print
Albumenized salted paper print
Albums
Aperture
Applied color
Artist's proof
Assembly process color print
Attribution
Blanquart-Évrard process
Blindstamp
Bromoil print
Burning-in and dodging

C

Calotype
Camera movement
Camera obscura
Carbon print
Carte-de-visite
Chloro-bromide print (See gelatin silver print)
Chromogenic process color print
Cibachrome (See silver dye bleach process print)
Collage/photomontage
Collotype
Composite photograph
Contact print
Cyanotype

D-E

Daguerreotype
Developing-out paper (d.o.p.)
Dry collodion negative
Dye diffusion transfer process color print
Dye transfer process color print
Duratrans
Edition
Ektacolor (See chromogenic process color print)
Exposure

G-O

Gelatin dry plate negative
Gelatin silver print
Gum bichromate print
Gum platinum print
Instantaneous photography
Kodachrome (See chromogenic process color print)
Lumière autochrome (See additive color process color plate)
Mat/mount
Mixed media
Multiple exposure
Negative print
Oil print

P

Palladium print
Panorama
Parmelian print
Photogram
Photography
Photogravure
Photomechanical transfer print
Pinhole camera
Platinum print
Polaroid polacolor (See dye diffusion transfer process color print.)
Printing-out paper (p.o.p)

R-S

Rawlins oil pigment print (See oil print)
Recto/verso
Rephotographed
Retouching
Salted paper print
Shutter
Silver dye bleach process print
Solarization

T-W

Time-lapse photography
Toning
Transillumination
Transparency
Variant
Varnishing
View camera
Vignette
Waxed paper negative
Wet collodion negative

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