The Night Albums: Visibility - And The Ephemeral ...

: This archaic process uses plant-based dyes that remain light-sensitive, meaning the final image is eventually effaced by sunlight.

: Early photographs in the 1830s and 1840s were notoriously unstable and would often fade into a uniform monochrome when exposed to the very light required to see them. The Night Albums: Visibility and the Ephemeral ...

By studying images that disappear, Albers suggests we can better understand our own saturated visual culture. Ephemerality is not a "glitch" but a central through-line that connects the "protracted hesitancies" of photography’s birth to the precarious, networked digital era we live in today. : This archaic process uses plant-based dyes that