{"id":25040,"date":"2023-01-27T01:03:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T05:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=25040"},"modified":"2023-01-26T01:00:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T05:00:09","slug":"egging-it-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/egging-it-on\/","title":{"rendered":"egging it on"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25041\" style=\"width: 165px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/eggs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25041\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25041\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/eggs-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">c1950 farm chickens and eggs<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. In the early days of photography, the idea of paper prints took hold. Thus the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albumen_print\">albumen print<\/a> came into being. At its peak, photography was a major user of eggs.<\/p>\n<p>Albumen (or raw egg whites) was (were) used to stick the light sensitive emulsion coating to the paper and give the print its slightly glossy look.<\/p>\n<p>The thin paper, &#8216;glue&#8217;, and emulsion coatings with the emulsion coating sensitized, made the resulting photo-sensitive print extremely curly. This was solved by gluing the paper to a cardboard backing, a practice that continued on with CdVs and other sizes of studio prints (popular in the mid to later 1800s).<\/p>\n<p>Note. The photo is that of my father&#8217;s sister on her farm. The sale of eggs gave my aunt &#8216;pin money&#8217;. The photo was taken with a Kodak camera &#8211; most likely my dad&#8217;s folder, but it may have originated in my box camera (also a Kodak). Of course, albumen prints had long passed into history by then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. In the early days of photography, the idea of paper prints took hold. Thus the\u00a0albumen print came into being. At its peak, photography was a major user of eggs. Albumen (or raw egg whites) was (were) used to stick &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/egging-it-on\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[49,4275,14,450,316],"class_list":["post-25040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-albumen","tag-eggs","tag-film","tag-glass-plates","tag-prints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25040"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25048,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25040\/revisions\/25048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}