#ambrotypes

[estroge-nt]

Currently making a sliding box camera based on examples fom the 1840s-50s. Can't wait to make some ambrotypes!

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Bridget Smith

[fashionbooksmilano]

Gold and Silver

Daguerréotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes from the gold rush

Luce Lebart

Canadian Photography Institute - Institut canadien de la photographie

Rvb Books, Paris 2017, 128 pages, 106 photographs, ISBN 979-10-90306-67-7

euro 56,00 n/a

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Gold and Silver offers a contemporary insight into an exclusive archive of the California Gold Rush held by the Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada, and donated by the Archive of Modern Conflict. Young nineteenth-century argonauts look at the camera, defying all the conventions of portraiture. Everything in these pictures – their attitudes, their stares, their clothes – deviates from the usual representations associated with daguerreotype photography. These portraits are accompanied by a series of landscape photographs, also printed on metal. Together, they reveal a pioneering iconography of the American landscape that stresses the human use of the land. The photographers manipulated their images after were printed, adding gold dust onto streams or gold nuggets onto the sieves of the pioneers. The book design highlights the relations between gold from the Great West and silver – two kinds of metallic salts used in photography. Gold and Silver is co-published by the Canadian Photography Institute and RVB Books

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[theamericanparlor]

The Liljenquist Family Collection at the Library of Congress

Contains over a thousand portraits of Civil War soldiers, both Union and Confederate. Known as ambrotypes and tintypes, many hand-tinted and most in their original photo cases, they are a vivid glimpse at the faces of people who fought on both sides of the conflict.

[supportblackart]

Self Portrait by @photofelli 📸 I am interested in history's complex relationship with the way Black bodies have been portrayed in early methods of photography, specifically wet plate. By learning this process of creating "tintypes" and ambrotypes I in turn am using the medium to create a new narrative based on contemporary Black Bodies. I am especially interested in documenting Nonbinary individuals. I am interested in the visual conversation that happens when people of color document their own as opposed to the narrative being directed by Europeans or white Americans. These visual stories will bridge the past with the present, in a way rewriting history. Felicita "Felli" Maynard 8x10 tintype www.photofelli.com . . . #SupportBlackArt #photofelli #photosbyfelli #wetplatecollodion #tintype #ambrotypes #storytelling #artist #blackart #afrolatinx #artlovers #artworld #photography #veryblack #blackcreatives #filmphotography #filmforever #artofvisuals #boi #genderqueer #queerartist #visibilitymatters #representationmatters #black

[strugglewartist]

I am interested in history's complex relationship with the way Black bodies have been portrayed in early methods of photography, specifically wet plate. By learning this process of creating "tintypes" and ambrotypes I in turn am using the medium to create a new narrative based on contemporary Black Bodies. I am especially interested in documenting Nonbinary individuals. I am interested in the visual conversation that happens when people of color document their own as opposed to the narrative being directed by Europeans or white Americans. These visual stories will bridge the past with the present, in a way rewriting history. Felicita "Felli" Maynard 8x10 tintype www.photofelli.com #SupportBlackArt #photofelli #photosbyfelli #wetplatecollodion #tintype #ambrotypes #storytelling #artist #boi #genderqueer #representationmatters #black

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Laurent Millet

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Laurent Millet - Somnium