Welcome to
GelatinSilverPrint.com
 
Galleries
 

This website encourages continuing dialogue between photographers and provides a cyber gallery for the works of Patrick Viersen Brown.

All the images represented here are for sale as limited edition fine art prints, the black and white images are wet processed

the color work may either be printed through traditional darkroom technique or with a archival digital printer (HPZ3100).

 
What does the name of this website mean?
 

With the world of photography embracing digital technology the more traditional methods of visual expression and documentation are gradually fading. At one time images were created on glass plates, those plates were carefully placed on checmically treated paper. Those papers were exposed to light then the papers were processed and images were realized. As photographic methods evolved a variety of prints types were created, some examples are: cyanotypes with their Prussian blue tint, platinum/palladium, salt, albumen and more recently, digital. If a photographer is creating a gelatin silver print, this type of printing paper has silver halides embedded in the paper. A gelatin silver print is commonly known as a black and white photographic print. The image, through exposure to reflected light, is created from a film's, i.e. emulsion based negative. The film suspends light-sensitive silver halides in a gelatin which is rinsed away during processing. The silver that remains on the film emulsion reveals the latent image on the film's base, from which a photographic print is created.

In the development of a gelatin silver print the paper goes through a similar chemical transition as described above for processing film and the resulting photographic print is know as a gelatin silver print. This type of print designation may be abbreviated as GSP.

 

 

This site humbly acknowledges the craft of producing the gelatin silver print - in the creation of my own black and white images. I have found that photography can change perceptions in how I choose to interact with the world. Photography has a profound impact on my life. But don't take my word for it, grab a camera - any kind from a pinhole to a digital - look at the world and allow the world to see you - something painfully wonderful and profoundly amazing is about to happen.
All Rights Reserved, Patrick V. Brown Photograpy, Inc., 2002-2009