{"id":7745,"date":"2010-09-21T01:53:55","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T00:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=7745"},"modified":"2010-09-21T01:53:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T00:53:55","slug":"alhambra-cyanotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/09\/21\/alhambra-cyanotypes\/","title":{"rendered":"Alhambra cyanotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/swedish_heritage_board\/4303655386\/in\/set-72157615103573638\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/alhambra1.jpg\" alt=\"alhambra1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cyanotype process is a very old photographic printing technique and also the source of the word &#8220;blueprint&#8221;, after the process became common among builders and engineers for the printing of plans. The technique also has its enthusiasts today, some examples of which can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternativephotography.com\/gall_cyanotypes.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. These views of the Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain, were taken by Carl Curman, a Swedish scientist and photographer, in 1878. The Swedish National Heritage Board at Flickr has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/34419668@N08\/collections\/72157613876075483\/\" target=\"_blank\">two sets<\/a> of Curman&#8217;s travel photography which include additional views of the Alhambra as well as other cyanotypes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/swedish_heritage_board\/4874863867\/in\/set-72157615103573638\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/alhambra2.jpg\" alt=\"alhambra2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/08\/11\/constantinople-1900\/\">Constantinople, 1900<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/06\/26\/edinburgh-1929\/\">Edinburgh, 1929<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/06\/05\/old-bunker-hill\/\">Old Bunker Hill<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/11\/22\/inondations-1910\/\">Inondations 1910<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/07\/23\/berenice-abbott\/\">Berenice Abbott<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/09\/19\/eugene-de-salignac\/\">Eugene de Salignac<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/06\/30\/luther-gerlachs-los-angeles\/\">Luther Gerlach\u2019s Los Angeles<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/06\/20\/the-temples-of-angkor\/\">The temples of Angkor<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/05\/18\/the-bradbury-building-looking-backward-from-the-future\/\">The Bradbury Building: Looking Backward from the Future<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/12\/06\/edward-steichen\/\">Edward Steichen<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/09\/02\/karel-plickas-views-of-prague\/\">Karel Plicka\u2019s views of Prague<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/07\/24\/atgets-paris\/\">Atget\u2019s Paris<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/04\/14\/downtown-la-by-ansel-adams\/\">Downtown LA by Ansel Adams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cyanotype process is a very old photographic printing technique and also the source of the word &#8220;blueprint&#8221;, after the process became common among builders and engineers for the printing of plans. The technique also has its enthusiasts today, some examples of which can be seen here. These views of the Alhambra Palace in Granada, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/09\/21\/alhambra-cyanotypes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alhambra cyanotypes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,12,15],"tags":[6779,1751,146],"class_list":["post-7745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-photography","category-technology","tag-ansel-adams","tag-carl-curman","tag-prague"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-20V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}