https://centurydarkroom.com/intro daily 1.0 2019-07-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1516832497705-3AF093LIEW4M7XRSX9A8/Lacock2015_Cloisters_JBoring.jpg Welcome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1516831536048-GWA02BFKLX956OL36T86/workshop+%283+of+5%29.jpg Welcome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1516831803601-ZS8OV3KBD4A6IQ5ZTDJH/Robinson_Half-Plate_Box.jpg Welcome https://centurydarkroom.com/conservation daily 0.75 2019-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1519534971726-F2NJL98PDXDMD8VY7KXC/Panorama_before-after.jpg Treatment Examples Canadian Photography Institute collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1516646219505-4L42WD1LDSFZTW7NJUEZ/Southworth+and+Hawes1_before-after.jpg Treatment Examples Southworth and Hawes Full Plate with Applied Colour https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1516646626308-MQ3IL6SZ9IF6R05DB6OW/SH-MM_FP1_before-after.jpg Treatment Examples Southworth and Hawes Whole-plate daguerreotype https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1567174190795-WJ3UVJRN6RVFCCC8MFVB/StAndrews-MS380181-D-Recto+-Before-After.jpg Treatment Examples Man calibrating scientific equipment - Collection of the University of StAndrews (MS380181-D) Before and After https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1519481808927-U8OCFZGGLHLWJCQSG985/Mr+Holley.jpg Treatment Examples Quarter-Plate thiourea treated daguerreotype twenty years after at left. Electro-cleaned to remove the Daguerreian Measles at right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1519518294253-I4GPMOA7ENLFWIJ9S6I3/Screen+Shot+2018-02-20+at+5.16.30+PM.png Treatment Examples Whole-plate daguerreotype of chess players - before and after electro-cleaning https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1519519787435-Y6MYSITDMTUOHTG01KN0/Screen+Shot+2018-02-20+at+5.20.23+PM.png Treatment Examples Southworth & Hawes Half-plate - before and after electro-cleaning https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1519524087877-Q2DFPE1PIVFWQVX81MAB/Surveyor Treatment Examples Surveyor, quarter-plate - before and after treatment https://centurydarkroom.com/contact daily 0.75 2018-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1517253104686-X9X7LWA6CJRVDC17HMIG/MikeReading.jpg CONTACT Dr. Mike is at your service! https://centurydarkroom.com/commissions daily 0.75 2021-10-14 https://centurydarkroom.com/information daily 0.75 2018-02-28 https://centurydarkroom.com/education daily 0.75 2026-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/38749a53-f405-420a-a1e5-762426355543/Yosemite_WKSP.png%27.png Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1519187228925-TNF1UUHTMPSV44R877KA/Workshop.jpg Workshops I offer personal and group hands-on instruction in my Toronto studio. Tutorials are either two or three days covering any topic related to the state of the art, including polishing, bromine acceleration, gilding, tinting and housing methods if desired. Students make several daguerreotypes during the lessons that they are free to take away. https://centurydarkroom.com/artwork daily 0.75 2018-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1517071284902-152DD6OND3Q1NG3ZILEA/Pittsburgh2007.jpg Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1518096278892-8WTJZWA3LIABLQ3NJ4WM/Pergola.jpg Art - Pergola George Eastman Museum Collection of the Artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1518096277536-7ICFNQDKO0J9YXZ8Q5CI/ArchivesGPC1.jpg Art - National Archives of Canada 2,400 USD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1518096280305-UBP3XSY4IKF2YBEPA64O/Robinson_RomanCourt.jpg Art - Roman Sculpture Court, MET Museum Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1518096277915-G76JIH4ZYB1410PPD21O/BloorViaduct.jpg Art - Don Valley Viaduct Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1518924945907-7NVFNVI34FGYHBAQ4T76/UnderBridge_matted.jpg Art - Blythewood Ravine Bridge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1518096278134-M44JUFBY32ZZXLNKUL1Q/DonRiverOfframp.jpg Art - Don Valley Parkway https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1518096281554-FLZYLKLTAB08K6EBK663/Robinson_Warholbridge.jpg Art - Warhol Bridge Pittsburgh Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1518096285214-NHW5NX9LP53IUF1GCUOT/Winter_12-26-2013_matted.jpg Art - Winter Scene Toronto 1,800 USD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1518096284779-M1UZ48UMVEP1JHCIPQUY/RosedaleValley.jpg Art - Rosedale Valley Road https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1518096282217-HTYVYIJW6NPTF3R76AL3/PittsburgBridge.jpg Art - Pittsburgh Bridge Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1518096282924-LF5TMXVMA6GG1Z6BZNO5/Robinson%C2%A9_Flatiron_2016.jpg Art - Flatiron New York Jeff Green Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1540835566079-6A200O8CIVCBYM024WM1/Robinson%C2%A9_Genzano+di+Roma.jpg Art - Genzano di Roma, Italy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1518925951686-ST96SBKZC5GA74X8HMOD/ArtsAndLetters%C2%A9M_Robinson.jpg Art - Arts and Letters Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1518925959573-B4QYC2FZO1DDXR7AUKZZ/Daguerre_Still-Life_2017_hires-shalf-plate.jpg Art - Daguerre Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1518925959347-95YMJ9C03BSY97RYNYID/DyingTulips%C2%A9M_Robinson.jpg Art - Dying Tulips Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1518925959845-LLJM1R7HLJ379L47NZ3R/Oenophilia%C2%A9M_Robinson.jpg Art - Oenophilia Alex Novak Vintage Works collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1518925961383-VYSYN6FBEARUT8FIWXVK/Robinson%C2%A9_TimePeace.jpg Art - Watchworks Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1518925960976-0CYMXLKC3B3WEWJPV5BM/SharringtonsTower%C2%A9M_Robinson.jpg Art - Sharington's Tower Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1518927498585-5D0ILVXGDE7FT4UR1U2G/SurveyDag.jpg Art - Survey Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1518927188586-90U12DCGKKE1LDROK8DG/Odelle2matted.jpg Art - Odelle Model 2 Collection of the Artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1518927671123-M7YLT9YXL7GDEMTGW6CW/Robinson__Resolution.jpg Art - Resolution 1,800 USD https://centurydarkroom.com/equipment-and-supplies daily 0.75 2025-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1538425552055-KDAWZ4N0TZOFTJJBG3JA/CherryVersion.jpg Mercury Vapor Apparatus Information At right is a 5 x 7 model designed for use with a film holder supplied by the client. In Cherry with a satin oil finish https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1528802705451-3JVMWH364BP9KQ99XM2L/Production810.jpg Mercury Vapor Apparatus Information Design Illustration: Apparatus adapted for use with a standard 4 x 5 film holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1540676661401-CJ49OPFZZMH2DYUY03PC/DM3_02.jpg Mercury Vapor Apparatus Information 8 x 10 Standard Version with a 4 x 5 reduction frame next to a 4 x 5 Standard Version at right. https://centurydarkroom.com/silver-clad-daguerreotype-plates daily 0.75 2019-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1518970313492-0YFAC2D10UQK7N5YNUSH/Plates_CD.jpg About Clad Silver Plates - Premium Quality Century Darkroom Daguerreotype Plates are made by the traditional cold roll cladding process using specially fabricated rollers The surface finish is second to none requiring far less preparation compared to other plates The silver layer is 25 microns thick which allows them to be reused several times...a tremendous economical advantage for beginners or advanced practitioners who like to experiment The silver layer on Century Darkroom plates is much softer and more homogeneous than electroplated silver, yielding brilliant highlights and beautiful tones Daguerreians agree...these are the finest plates that money can buy! https://centurydarkroom.com/abp daily 0.75 2018-12-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1519363265658-7TGDQXTUR0G5EZHUZICS/Mike_Headshot2017.jpg Bio Mike Robinson's PhD dissertation, The Techniques and Material Aesthetics of the Daguerreotype explains why daguerreotypes look the way they do. It does this by retracing the pathway of discovery and innovation described in historical accounts, and combining this historical research with artisanal, tacit, and causal knowledge gained from synthesizing new daguerreotypes in the laboratory. Admired for its astonishing clarity and holographic tones, each daguerreotype contains a unique material story about the process of its creation. Clues from the historical record that report improvements in the art have been tested in practice to explicitly understand the cause for effects described in texts and observed in historic images. This research raises awareness of the materiality of the daguerreotype as an image, and the materiality of the daguerreotype as a process. Portrait © Alexander Dzhus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1519784512164-3C7D30W24X76QO6XE59G/Bry_Exhibition_MR2015.jpg Bio Bry-sur-Marne, 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1519786172735-LSFWMQAJWWQMTOFLNKS1/Robinson%C2%A9_HgTimeTest.jpg Bio The Colours of the Daguerreotype, Mercury Variations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1519785916233-13QOSVWJRJ30RLTSMHV7/Mike%2BRobinson%2BDag%2BWorkshop%2BPenumbra%2B2016-203.jpg Bio Penumbra Foundation NYC, Daguerreotype Workshop 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1519787698990-26JBZT39L1ARTG6V5MP9/ImageObject_Robinson.jpg Bio Image Object Exhibition NYC, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1519787651893-F9D2BL289Q5REIT1STBJ/Screen+Shot+2018-02-27+at+10.09.10+PM.png Bio Lecuture 2013, The Colours of the Daguerreotype https://centurydarkroom.com/housing-treatments daily 0.75 2018-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1519582530498-EL7KBZD6B084H9NUEAY8/CoverGlass.jpg Housing Treatments Quarter-plate daguerreotype with applied colour - before and after glass replacement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1519587656143-5XS2RP3GDBU7ZFAY9TQN/LFA21500_100_6-befor-after.jpg Housing Treatments Stereo daguerreotype with deteriorated reverse paint cover glass and new replacement glass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1519590556228-Q2B0PBJBDNS0WIHIM3SK/FrenchFamily_before-after.jpg Housing Treatments Quarter plate of a French family group - before and after treatment and new passé-partout cover glass https://centurydarkroom.com/sensitizing-boxes-1 daily 0.75 2018-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1545173321083-4T5XXVO0NRLBM2NG5LXX/Sensitizing+Box+Rendering.jpg Sensitizing Boxes - Century Darkroom Sensitizing Boxes are designed to be compact and easy to operate. The sensitizers are contained in Pyrex© glass trays with their top edge ground flat to seal against the 3 mm thick ground glass slide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1545173251876-1KCL9RR379AYZD1XFG96/SensitizingBox_wPlateholder.jpg Sensitizing Boxes Available in Teak or Cherry with Satin Finish The Iodine Box can be ordered standard or with a custom top adapted for sensitizing under daylight conditions. This combined with a Century Darkroom Mercury apparatus enables one to make daguerreotypes anywhere without a darkroom. https://centurydarkroom.com/copy-of-workshops-sqsp daily 0.75 2019-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1545305108462-M5PZVSU3VSE3J54ED485/Penumbra_WKSP.png Copy of Workshops -sqsp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1548950376059-IPNPQBY8AH1AWMSU0VIX/Dag+at+Lacock+2019+Card.jpg Copy of Workshops -sqsp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1519187228925-TNF1UUHTMPSV44R877KA/Workshop.jpg Copy of Workshops -sqsp I offer personal and group hands-on instruction in my Toronto studio. Tutorials are either two or three days covering any topic related to the state of the art, including polishing, bromine acceleration, gilding, tinting and housing methods if desired. Students make several daguerreotypes during the lessons that they are free to take away. https://centurydarkroom.com/clad-plates daily 0.75 2018-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1518979711952-V769EGBP3G31B6DI1COS/Plates_CD.jpg Daguerreotype Plate Store https://centurydarkroom.com/clad-plates/one-dozen-half-plates-65p99-ryzts-wmkr6 monthly 0.5 2026-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1519062649941-8S8LIEDHQYX0SCINB6F8/Plates_CD.jpg Daguerreotype Plate Store - One Dozen Sixth Plates https://centurydarkroom.com/clad-plates/one-dozen-half-plates-65p99-ryzts monthly 0.5 2026-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1519062605561-WYIWPRMOU01SF67J9BBH/Plates_CD.jpg Daguerreotype Plate Store - One Dozen Quarter Plates https://centurydarkroom.com/clad-plates/one-dozen-half-plates-65p99 monthly 0.5 2026-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1519062457855-J05FESGAGHIXW2N319FN/Plates_CD.jpg Daguerreotype Plate Store - One Dozen 4 x 5 Plates https://centurydarkroom.com/clad-plates/one-dozen-half-plates monthly 0.5 2026-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1519062526351-DFDEJAUTI00N19YOTX6M/Plates_CD.jpg Daguerreotype Plate Store - One Dozen Half Plates https://centurydarkroom.com/order-a-mercury-vapour-apparatus daily 0.75 2018-06-13 https://centurydarkroom.com/order-a-mercury-vapour-apparatus/teak-version-deposit monthly 0.5 2023-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1528806259585-RLOTNVB80W3Q9JSCLRW4/Production810.jpg Order a Mercury Vapour Apparatus - Deposit https://centurydarkroom.com/order-sensitizing-boxes daily 0.75 2018-12-03 https://centurydarkroom.com/order-sensitizing-boxes/deposit-1 monthly 0.5 2024-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1545190751270-C164GLZ8CXKOIB5MFGLJ/SensitizingBox_wPlateholder.jpg Order Sensitizing Boxes - Deposit https://centurydarkroom.com/california-workshop-registration daily 0.75 2023-06-28 https://centurydarkroom.com/california-workshop-registration/lacock-daguerreotype-workshop-2019-june-27-29 monthly 0.5 2023-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a63a84d692ebe91943f2e97/1687963613269-O49YI9FLOJCHEUNVY8N5/Workshop_StillLife.png California Workshop Registration - California Workshop - Arryo Grande/Oceana - October 26 - 29, 2023 https://centurydarkroom.com/amsterdam-workshop-registration daily 0.75 2019-02-01 https://centurydarkroom.com/st-andrews-workshop-registration daily 0.75 2019-05-30 https://centurydarkroom.com/tutorial-fee daily 0.75 2020-02-10