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 ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – A Barrio Logan artist is working to preserve his community’s history through a nearly 200-year-old form of photography. Rafael Rios grew up in his family’s photography studio in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s note: An untold number of unheralded artists live in Colorado, those creators who can’t (or don’t want to) get into galleries and rely on word of ...

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 ...

In photography, there’s seemingly no room for industry progress, or in entrepreneurial parlance, “disruption.” Think about it. Professional photographers can take pictures that look more lifelike than ...

DAGUERREOTYPE WAS THE FIRST COMMERCIALLY SUCCESSFUL PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESS, BUT SHORTLY AFTER ITS POPULARITY PEAKED IN THE 1840S AS A MORE AFFORDABLE VERSION CAME ALONG CALLED THE TINTYPE, THEY WERE ...

TANGIBLE RESULTS: Sara Mulvey is one of a small number of Asheville-area photographers who specialize in tintype. Photo by Meghan McIver There is a special thrill reserved for flipping through old ...

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 ...

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 ...

H. H. Bennett made popular stereoscopic images that promoted the state as a tourist attraction. H. H. (Henry Hamilton) Bennett started his photography business in 1865 after serving in the Wisconsin ...

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 ...