Virtual Holiday Boutique 2020

Photography

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Herbert Ascherman

A tintype is a classic process of making a single, unique and laterally reversed photograph on a metal plate. A sheet of (contemporarily) black or blue aluminum is coated with a solution of collodion, rested for minute, immersed in a sensitizing bath of silver nitrate, immediately mounted in a plate holder, exposed in the camera, then developed in darkness…all within several minutes while the collodion is still wet. The photographic image is suspended in collodion, defying time or other visible effects of aging. When dry, the plate is coated with varnish for practically guaranteed permanence.

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Phone: 216-559-0104