An early photographic printing process that creates images using light-sensitive chemicals on paper or other surfaces.
From Greek 'kallos' (beauty) and 'typos' (print or impression), coined in the 19th century to describe a printing technique that aimed to produce beautiful reproductions of photographic images.
The callitype process bridged painting and photography—artists in the 1800s used it to make prints that looked almost like hand-painted masterpieces, blurring the line between traditional and modern art!
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