Before the advent of dry plates and roll film, photographers took pictures using wet plates. This step-by-step explanation shows you how they did it.

It is gelatin dry plate which allows plates to be prepared and stored for later use. This innovation led to more convenient and faster photography, setting the stage for roll film.

Fine photographic artist, N.W. Gibbons presents a lecture and rare demonstration of the 19th century wet plate photography process, Saturday, January 28, 2017, at the Norwalk Historical Society ...

Photographers could take a set of dry plates into the field, expose a stack of them, and develop weeks later in a darkroom. The solution was eventually applied to paper and film and in 1888 when the ...

While most photographers have transitioned from film to digital photography, Harry Taylor decided on a different route—one that led him to the mid-19 th century and the world of wet plate ...

Wet plate photography has been making a serious come back lately, but this Kickstarter from Galaxy wants to bring back dry plate, large format photography in a relatively accessible way. If you’re ...

A Brooklyn photographer has started a series shooting old industrial buildings around Gowanus using a method as old as many of the nabe’s manufacturing structures — the ancient art of dry glass plates ...

Before the advent of dry plates and roll film, photographers took pictures using wet plates. This step-by-step explanation shows you how they did it.