Victorian Era Tintype Portraits of Children (1870s and 1880s)
Photo collection of Vintage Victorian Era Tintype Portraits of Children (1870s and 1880s). From the collection of Lisby @ Flickr.
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Interview with Tintype photographer Christine Eadie
1. How and when did you become interested in photography? When I was around 11 I pulled apart my mother’s Kodak instamatic to see how the shutter worked. I ended up breaking the camera in the process. A friend then gave us an old Canon 35mm rangefinder but mum didn’t understand the manual settings. So I went to the library…
Wet Plate Collodion Intimate Portraits by Lunar Kostic
Lunar Kostic has been interested in photography since he was about 6 or 7, and his older brother Bill let me walk around the block with Canon AE-1. He was in the Camera Club in Grade 9, shot 35mm through the 80s, and bought his first ‘point and shoot’ digital in 1997. After 15 years in the field of Medical…
Nude Ambrotypes by James Weber
James has been creating photographic art for over 19 years in a variety of photographic mediums including wet plate, film, polaroid, and digital. Portrait and nude studies have always been a constant study of James’ personal work. James has immersed himself in the second oldest photographic process ever created, wet plate collodion, which has helped create a bond between himself…
