Let's imagine that you're hiking with friends to the summit of a nearby mountain or hill, and you'd like to capture the excursion on film. Today, you would just need carry along a small camera — the ...
The collodion process, invented by Frederick Scott Archer in 1851, revolutionized photographic printing in the 19th century by introducing glass negatives that provided unparalleled clarity and detail ...
Photography was a part of Quinn Jacobson’s life from an early age. Both his mother and father were avid photographers, and both were accomplished in their own right. Jacobson began his career as a ...
Joni Sternbach takes contemporary portraits of surfers using 19 th-century photographic processes in her ongoing series, "SurfLand." The photos are one-of-a-kind tintypes made with a large-format ...
The amazing result combines old and new. When it comes to iPhoneography, “retro” usually refers to adding some light leaks, desaturating some colors or adding fake grain. But for Jake Potts, it means ...
While most photographers have transitioned from film to digital photography, Harry Taylor decided on a different route—one that led him to the mid-19 th century and the world of wet plate collodion ...
A photo can be shot and seen in an instant in this digital age where anyone with a smart phone can be a photographer. There is no film to load in a camera. No darkroom lighting to concern yourself ...
Let's imagine that you're hiking with friends to the summit of a nearby mountain or hill, and you'd like to capture the excursion on film. Today, you would just need carry along a small camera — the ...