History of Photography Podcast

History of Photography Podcast


History of Photography Podcast 9 : Latent Image and Immediate Image

June 02, 2015

When light sensitive material is exposed to light, a chemical change happens, but this change isn’t necessarily visible. This idea is perhaps part of why early photographers - and early viewers of photographic images - had a hard time with the concept of the latent image, yet it was one of the most important components of the technology of photography in its infancy.