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
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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