9.1 France Scully Osterman, Light Pours In, from the Sleep series, waxed salt print on Strathmore paper, 8 × 10 in. (20.32 × 25.4 cm), 2002. ©France Scully Osterman.
The Sleep images offer contradictions: a sense of voyeurism juxtaposed with a moment of innocence; a reminiscence of death (or post-mortem), yet full of movement and energy.
The earliest salted paper prints were made in the 1840s and 1850s from calotype paper negatives, waxed paper, and albumen-on-glass negatives. Salt prints were also sometimes called “Crystalotypes.” The term ...
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