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Orotones 1
Photography Exhibition
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Orotones

September 30 - October 29

At Vincennes

Vincennes

🔵Cyanotypes on glass glow Prussian blue
📷Orotones were Curtis's signature portrait medium
🎞️Celebrates 200 years since photography's invention

Photography the old-fashioned way: Guy Belzane revives the orotone, a 19th-century process printing images on gold-backed glass, made famous by Edward S. Curtis's portraits of Native Americans. A shimmering early toast to photography's bicentennial.

Historic photo techniques
Gold-backed glass prints
Edward S. Curtis legacy
Photography bicentennial

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  • Gold-backed glass prints
  • Edward S. Curtis legacy
  • Photography bicentennial
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