Unless noted, all of the prints in this exhibition were made from paper negatives. Tripe worked during a transitional period in photographic printmaking when plain salted paper prints were giving way to albumen prints. He typically coated his paper with dilute albumen after which he applied a light-sensitizing solution. Following exposure and fixing, he usually toned his photographs with gold to achieve a distinctive tonality and greater permanence. Unlike earlier salted paper prints or later glossier albumen prints made on commercially prepared paper, Tripe’s have a delicate, subtle sheen.
Exhibition Catalog Captain Linnaeus Tripe
Roger Taylor, Crispin Branfoot, with Sarah Greenough and Malcolm Daniel
AudioIntroduction to the Exhibition, lecture by Sarah Greenough, exhibition curator
Audio Symposium Lecture Part 1: ''A Glorious Galaxy of Monuments': Photography and the Archaeological Survey of India after Tripe," John Falconer
Audio Symposium Lecture Part 2: "Interpreting Early Photography in India: Medium and Method," Zahid R. Chaudhary
Audio Symposium Lecture Part 3: "Measuring Time: Linnaeus Tripe’s Inscription of the Thanjavur Temple, 1858," Maria Antonella Pelizzari
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