Extreme archival prints

[john_s]

Daguerreotypes found under the sea since 1857:

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...ly-picture-gallery-is-plucked-from-the-seabed

 

[MattKing]

Fascinating story. Ambrotypes as well.
The story is confusing, because it mostly references "glass plate" photos.

 

[hoffy]

This is rather cool! The longevity of original photography!
https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...ly-picture-gallery-is-plucked-from-the-seabed

 

[beemermark]

Fascinating. I'm in the midst of reading a book about the ship wreck right now.

 

[MattKing]

Threads combined.

 

[eddie]

Fascinating. I'm in the midst of reading a book about the ship wreck right now.

Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea, by Gary Kinder? I read it years ago. It's excellent.
As an aside, the town of Herndon, near me in Fairfax County VA, is named for the captain.

 

[MattKing]

Thanks to those who alerted me about the duplicate threads by Reporting a Post. FWIW, it helps if you can include in your Report something that helps identify the other duplicates - particularly when thread titles are really different, and the sub-fora also are different.

 

[hoffy]

Daguerreotypes found under the sea since 1857:

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...ly-picture-gallery-is-plucked-from-the-seabed

Great minds think alike!

Sorry about the duplicate thread folks

 

[gone]

On land, salt is a preservative, so maybe the sea helped to preserve the images. It helps that they weren't exposed to air, but one thing is very disappointing. We're teased by "This beautiful 18-year-old person, or however old she is, with her shoulders bare with jewellery and lace.". Fine, it sounds good, but all we get is this. Not the same.

Well, it's The Guardian. This one they could have left down there, I'll probably have nightmares tonight about it.

 

[MattKing]

all we get is this.

As the Friendly Giant said to so many Canadian Kids over the years: "Look up, look way up"
The photo at the very beginning of the article is the one described - at least in what I see.

 

[hoffy]

On land, salt is a preservative, so maybe the sea helped to preserve the images. It helps that they weren't exposed to air, but one thing is very disappointing. We're teased by "This beautiful 18-year-old person, or however old she is, with her shoulders bare with jewellery and lace.". Fine, it sounds good, but all we get is this. Not the same.

Well, it's The Guardian. This one they could have left down there, I'll probably have nightmares tonight about it.

Its literally the first image in the article!

 

[john_s]

On land, salt is a preservative, so maybe the sea helped to preserve the images. .....

I think it might be the mercury that helped their preservation. Handy stuff, pity it's poisonous.

 

[grain elevator]

Funny that the article doesn't lay out the properties of collodion plates that make it a bit less surprising that they can survive a while under water, differently from silver gelatine or albumen. Collodion in dried state is quite water resistant and also usually gets varnished AFAIK.
Daguerreotypes are also a little different from prints most Guardian readers would be familiar with... but more surprising that they survived, considering the image is right at the surface! Or were they also sometimes varnished?