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MEET TINTYPE. Together, we make up our husband and wife photography team – TinType Photography. We like dogs, adventuring, and Dolly Parton. We are both Chattanooga transplants, and while we can’t imagine home being anywhere else, we love to explore the rest of the world! We want to photograph the world as we see it – crisp, vibrant, and ...
A tintype, also known as melainotype or ferrotype, is an old style of photograph that creates a photographic image on a thin sheet of metal or iron that has been coated with a dark lacquer or enamel. Tintype photos are created when metal plates are coated with chemicals, exposed to light in a camera, and processed with additional chemistry.
When an individual visited a photo studio in the late 1850s, he could choose the style of portrait—shiny reflective daguerreotype, glass ambrotype, metal tintype or a paper card photo. This is a key part of identifying a photo from the mid-19th century. If an image was taken before 1854, then it’s a daguerreotype, but if it was taken after ...
Mar 12, 2012 · Unlike with more modern forms of photography, shooting tintypes forces Shimmin to carefully consider each shot due to the fact that each one requires so much time and effort. Educational ...
Mar 13, 2024 · The tintype process gave photography a broader appeal. It was popular from the 1860s into the early 20th century. But camera technology moved on, and by the 1930s, the wet collodion process was all but forgotten. Wet Plate Photography in the Modern Era Tintype photography is now having a renaissance.
1133 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY. Sep 19, 2008 – Jan 04, 2009. Exhibition Catalogue Press Release PDF. One of the most intriguing and little studied forms of nineteenth-century photography is the tintype. Introduced in 1856 as a low-cost alternative to the daguerreotype and the albumen print, the tintype was widely marketed from the ...
Summary: More than 7,000 special portrait photographs, called ambrotypes and tintypes, and small card photos called cartes de visite represent both Union and Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War (1861-1865). Tom Liljenquist and his sons Jason, Brandon, and Christian built this collection in memory of President Abraham Lincoln and ...
