as in daguerreotype
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Recent Examples of tintype
Photographers were going out and loading their wagons up with tintypes, and heading off into the wild yonder and creating these amazing photographs.
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Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
Neither Drew nor Janisse could believe the 9-year-old boy’s resemblance to his ancestor in that black-and-white tintype photo.
—Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
Passages Radcliffe Bailey, an artist whose sculptural assemblages included his grandmother’s tintypes, and who chronicled the narratives of Black life, has died at 54.
—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2023
In 2014, the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D. C. acquired a tintype portrait.
—Nora Mathison, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
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Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
Neither Drew nor Janisse could believe the 9-year-old boy’s resemblance to his ancestor in that black-and-white tintype photo.
—Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
Passages Radcliffe Bailey, an artist whose sculptural assemblages included his grandmother’s tintypes, and who chronicled the narratives of Black life, has died at 54.
—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2023
In 2014, the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D. C. acquired a tintype portrait.
—Nora Mathison, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tintype
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Full-spectrum color had been a photographic dream since the first daguerreotypes, and early moviemakers were no less determined to conjure a celluloid canvas that reflected life in all its splendor.—
Thomas Doherty,
The Hollywood Reporter,
11 Mar. 2025
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The 1846 daguerreotype, which captured her in her 70s, is by photographer John Plumbe Jr., who would also create the earliest extant image of the U.S. Capitol in 1846.—
Roger Catlin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Dec. 2024
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The sketches are in sepia tone or black and white, with all the color taken out of them.—
Sierra Knoch,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Mar. 2025
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The decade is lushly integrated into the storyline, a soft focus and sepia tones bring an air of nostalgia to the fore as the sets and cast recreate the trappings of a gritty Madrid, 1979.—
Holly Jones,
Variety,
17 Feb. 2025
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With few photographs, no clear family records, and little oral history preserved, DNA testing offers, albeit partial, answers to an individual's story.—
Abigail Dubiniecki,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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Rick is enraged, and finds Jim happily taking a photograph with his wife, Sritala (Lek Patravadi), and the three galpals on vacation.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
7 Apr. 2025
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Mannion, who is also a PNW alumna, hoped her photos and story would inspire other young women.—
Maya Wilkins,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Mar. 2025
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Newsweek could not independently verify the photos' authenticity.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
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The Max streaming service has quietly launched a fresh look, ditching its shiny blue user interface for a new monochrome color palette that, either purposefully or not, evokes the longtime branding of HBO.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
30 Mar. 2025
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The compact Light Phone III is more squarish than the previous handset, with a 3.92-inch monochrome AMOLED behind matte glass instead of the older E Ink screen.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Tintype.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tintype. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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