Tintypes were the first form of photography to really allow the public to get a quick, inexpensive, and durable portrait. Debuting in the 1850s, they peaked during the Civil War, a popular method for ...
Instant gratification, the kind you get from a selfie, used to come on a thin sheet of iron. A tintype photo was novel and relatively immediate in the late 19th century. Have your picture made then ...
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COMMERCIALLY SUCCESSFUL PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESS, BUT SHORTLY AFTER ITS POPULARITY PEAKED IN THE 1840S, A MORE AFFORDABLE VERSION CAME ALONG CALLED THE TINTYPE. THEY WERE NEVER ACTUALLY MADE ON TIN. THEY ...
In the wake of the Eaton fire, there are ghosts in Altadena. Not literal ghosts — though that could depend on whom you ask — but an army of figurative phantoms, like the lonely chimneys that mark the ...
Welcoming Jim Hair into his studio, tintype photographer Noyel Gallimore is giddy. Hair, a consistent force in the Portland photography scene since the ′70s, is a professional in every sense of the ...
Fontaine Hernandez, owner of Brouhaha, looking out the front window of her tintype studio on May 28, 2026. Photo by Zoe Malen. Walk into Fontaine Hernandez’s studio at Fillmore and Haight streets, and ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The NMAH Photo History Collection ...
Kali Spitzer: I’ve always been fascinated by tintypes. The first images that I was really taken with were Sally Mann’s wet plates. And I also used to do silversmithing, so it’s kind of combining my ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Tintype studio portrait of an elderly ...
Recently, Milwaukeeans Eileen Blom and Margaret Muza revived a lost art form of photography and launched a business, Gun Cotton Tintype Photography. Appointments are available now in studio, and next ...