Mike Ware (photographer)
# Mike Ware (photographer)

Michael J. Ware (born 1939, Bromley) FRSC FRSC is a chemist and photographer, known for his work in alternative photographic processes, earlier methods of printing photographic images that were succeeded by the more common silver-gelatin used today. In the Present, Ware acts as a consultant, most recently on the history and development of the platinotype and palladium processes. His has also written about chemistry's influence on the history of photography.

## Early life and education

Ware was born in 1939 in Bromley. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Oxford in 1965. His thesis was The vibrational spectra of some inorganic complexes.

## Awards and honours

* 1982 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
* 1990 Hood Medal, awarded by the Royal Photographic Society

## Selected publications

### Academic works

* Mike Ware (1 October 2005). "Photography in Platinum and Palladium". Johnson Matthey Technology Review. 49 (4): 190–195. doi:10.1595/147106705X70291. ISSN 0032-1400. Wikidata Q55898495.
* Anne K. Powell; John M. Charnock; Annette C. Flood; C. David Garner; Michael J. Ware; William Clegg (1992). "Crystal structures and extended X-ray absorption fine structure spectra of [Fe{O(CH2CO2)2}(H2O)2X](X = Cl or Br)". Dalton transactions RSC (2): 203. doi:10.1039/DT9920000203. ISSN 1364-5447. Wikidata Q57967349.
* J. LEWIS; A. R. MANNING; J. R. MILLER; M. J. WARE; F. NYMAN (July 1965). "Use of Combination Bands in the Vibrational Spectroscopy of Metal Carbonyls". Nature. 207 (4993): 142–145. Bibcode:1965Natur.207..142L. doi:10.1038/207142A0. ISSN 1476-4687. Wikidata Q59084906.

### Published books

* Mike Ware (1999). Cyanotype : The History, Science and Art of Photographic Printing in Prussian Blue. Gardners Books. ISBN 978-1-900-74707-3. OL 22242070M. Wikidata Q105415348.
* Mike Ware (1994). Mechanisms of Image Deterioration in Early Photographs: The Sensitivity to Light of W.H.F. Talbot's Halide-fixed Images 1834-1844. ISBN 978-0-901-80578-2. OL 11363069M. Wikidata Q105415405.
