Solarized print process
Solarisation is a phenomenon in photography in which the image recorded on a negative or on a photographic print is wholly or partially reversed in tone. Dark areas appear light or light areas appear dark.
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King George VI
by Bertram Park
1930s
NPG x1695
Dorothy Emily Evelyn (née Whittall), Lady Campbell as Niobe
by Madame Yevonde
June 1935
NPG x11649
John Piper
by Howard Coster
1954
NPG x2085
Caroline Fleur (née Vatcher), Lady Hobart
by Madame Yevonde
1960s
NPG x29822
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Tudor and Elizabethan matching pairs
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Regency familiar faces
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Who do you think you were?
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