Workshop creation «Discovering the cyanotype!»

Name: Workshop creation «Discovering the cyanotype!»
Start: 2022-09-18T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Archives départementales des Landes

Learn more about a contact printing technique developed by Sir John Hershel in 1842 that allows you to create beautiful paintings...

Sunday 18 September 2022, 14:00Passed

Conditions

Free. Free entrance.

©J. Camus / AD 40

Learn more about a contact printing technique developed by Sir John Hershel in 1842 that allows you to create beautiful paintings...

With poetry and softness, the Archives introduce you to the art of cyanotype, an alternative photographic process that transforms plants into magnificent blue paintings of Prussia. Come with your plants, we will make paintings!

About the location

Archives départementales des Landes

25 place du 6ème RPIMA, 40000 Mont-de-Marsan

Landes
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

The building(ship) of archives was built in 2007 by the architect Nathalie Larradet on the site of the old(former) barracks Grove. Dating the 19th century, she(it) was rehabilitated to become the centre of preservation of archives. A surface of 5113 m ², 17 km of shelving. The glassy facade represents the eight centuries of history(story) of the department.