David Malin 2011
Last week I went to an astronomical exhibition by the pioneering astronomy photographer David Malin at the Bristol Gallery. The images where very beautiful and are the last of there kind because they where taken from glass plate negatives. Now space photography is digital. The prints in the show are scans from a negative then printed digitally, to hand print now would be such a difficult and lengthy process. On show where three original prints using the 1891 maxwell‘s additive 3 colour system.
“Malin was the first person to use this process for astronomical colour images, and part of that process now bears his name, ‘malinisation’.” source
The curator of the exposition explained, that the when borrowing the glass plates. There where unable to insure them as they where irreplaceable.
The image pictured with David was my favorite, because in the bottom right hand corner there are the reflections of the inside of the telescope made by the light of two stars in Orion’s belt. This is the only photograph in the collection to show evidence of how it was taken and for me that was quite special.
Mon, Oct 24, 2011
Exhibitions