How to Use tintype in a Sentence

tintype

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  • The fading tintype of a long-dead great-great-great-aunt that creeps you out.
    — Amanda Chemeche, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 June 2023
  • The tintype, or emulsion plate photography, dates to the 1850s.
    — Pat McDonogh, The Courier-Journal, 16 Feb. 2022
  • And there, in a battered Irish tintype, is my great-grandmother, Margaret McGuire.
    — Campbell McGrath, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2020
  • In one striking tintype dated 1859, a young boy perches on a seat, eyes open, holding a rattle.
    — Nancy West, The Atlantic, 19 July 2017
  • Good-ridge and Ball also adopted the tintype process, which produced images on a thin sheet of iron coated with a dark lacquer or enamel.
    — Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
  • Monk is now smiling with an air of sublimated rage and disbelief, still and statuesque as a tintype.
    — Harmony Holiday, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Visitors are welcome to drop by the studio and gallery to learn about tintype photography.
    — Tracy Maness, Houston Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Old tintypes sit on top of a 19th-century Singer sewing machine handed down from Shirley’s grandmother.
    — Leigh-Ann Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Lines gathered outside a stand that sold newsboy caps and another that offered on-site tintype portraits.
    — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 20 June 2023
  • The elements of the image are straightforward enough: A bluish tintype from the mid-19th century has two very large pink blossoms superimposed on it.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2019
  • But as an Oakland tintype portrait photographer proves filters can't come close to the original craft developed in the mid 1800's.
    — Laura Mallonee, WIRED, 20 Apr. 2018
  • One Fawick Gallery wall shows tintype images of Chapman posing as asylum patients.
    — Beth Mlady, cleveland, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Silver and Cedar is a tintype photography studio and leather shop that carries furnishings, keepsakes and in-house made wood décor.
    — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 25 Nov. 2020
  • The current artist in residence at the Pfister is tintype photographer Margaret Muza.
    — Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Photographer Adrian Whipp is a master of the wet plate collodion process and will capture your grinning mugs in a tintype as timeless as your friendship.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Marie Claire, 5 May 2021
  • Salgado says a tintype portrait is as important today as in centuries past.
    — Pat McDonogh, The Courier-Journal, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Get a tarot reading, tintype photography or have your silhouette drawn.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Along with portraits, Mr. Wool specializes in making tintype images.
    — John Peabody, New York Times, 28 June 2018
  • Meanwhile, at the Pfister Hotel itself, current artist in residence Margaret Muza will show her tintype photography and working process.
    — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2018
  • They were created as tintypes, a period technique, and relatively small.
    — Vicki Goldberg, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The medium has grown and changed over the centuries, both aesthetically and technologically, but whether someone is shooting on an iPhone or a bulbous tintype camera, the results can be magical and inspiring.
    — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
  • A vitrine of daguerreotypes and tintypes from the Burns Family Collection shows a series of ingeniously heartbreaking attempts, only some of them successful, to make recent corpses look lifelike for the camera.
    — Roberta Smith, Karen Rosenberg, Will Heinrich and Martha Schwendener, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2016
  • The slow, deliberate tintype process fostered a more intimate connection between the photographers and their subjects.
    — John Otis, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Metal images tend to predominate in studies of early photography, thanks to their relative ubiquity, physical durability, and the literal brilliance of the daguerreotype and its homelier cousin the tintype.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2018
  • Focusing strongly on her Gambian roots, as well as identity conflicts and spirituality, her photographs were often monochrome, and aged using an old-fashioned process called collodion tintype.
    — Clive Martin, CNN, 23 June 2017
  • In Alternative Processes, Nelson uses archaic development techniques like tintype and Mordancage to create bizarre and beautiful abstractions.
    — Taylor Glascock, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2016

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