Artists Know How to Keep Things in Perspective

“[Paolo Uccello] would remain the long night in his study to work out the vanishing points of his perspective, and when summoned to his bed by his wife replied in the celebrated words: ‘How fair a thing is this perspective.’ Being endowed be nature with a sophisticated and subtle disposition, he took pleasure in nothing […]

What is a Cyanotype?

We’ve been talking cyanotypes here with Snapshot in the galleries. The show features a few photographs of that process by Henri Rivière and last week we held a workshop. So what is a cyanotype? Cyanotype is a 170 year old photographic printing process that produces prints in a distinctive dark greenish-blue. The word cyan comes from […]