A photograph printed on paper that has been coated with gelatin containing light-sensitive halides. First introduced in 1872, gelatin silver prints are the standard black and white prints in use today.
A fancy name for the common black-and-white photograph, this process has remained largely unchanged since it was introduced in the 1880s. Paper is coated with gelatin that holds light-sensitive silver halide particles. Light shone through a negative strikes the paper, activating the silver particles. The paper is placed in a chemical developing solution that allows the transformed silver particles to be seen by the human eye as black, white, and all the gray tones in between.
the technical term for most black-and-white photographs.
a black-and-white photograph in which the image, consisting of silver metal, is suspended in a gelatin layer
(see Silver print) Gelatin silver prints refer specifically to the gelatin emulsion of the paper, which suspends the light-sensitive silver salts evenly on the surface. The silver salts are generally made of silver bromide, silver chloride, or a combination of the two. The are a range of papers used in gelatin silver prints providing a variety of tones, weights, and surfaces.
Introduced in the 1870s, this is the most common of all printing processes in which paper is coated with gelatin that contains light sensitive silver; it is the standard contemporary black and white print today and also referred to as silver print.
A positive image composed of silver particles held in a binder layer of gelatin on paper. This technique was used to make contact prints and enlargements from negatives from the late 1870s. Gelatin silver enlarging papers continue to be widely used for back-and -white photographs today. © Miriam Grossman Cohen Close
