If students are having a hard time distinguishing their autochrome from their photogram, here are three fantastic on-line resources that offer definitions and examples of photographic processes:
- Historic Photographs, from the British Library, is an on-line gallery tour of photography “in its formative years.”
- Exploring Photography, from the Victoria & Albert Museum, has a series of links to each process (from the beginning through digital) and various works from the V&A collection that illustrate each definition.
- digitalsamplebook.com‘s Graphic Atlas, hosted by the Image Permanence Institute at Rochester Institute of Technology, is a more technical exploration of photographic (including pre-photographic) processes, and offers a virtual study collection tour and the ability to identify and compare processes using views made with various lighting techniques and magnifications.