ANTIQUE AMBROTYPE PHOTO MAN W/TALL ' STOVE PIPE ' TOP HAT 19TH CENTURY FASHION
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:3108099 |
c1855 Collodion Positive/Ambrotype PhotographMan wearing tall top hat. Almost 'Stove Pipe'?
---Each Ambrotype (U.S) or Collodion Positive (U.K) is a unique original and can only be duplicated by using a camera to copy it.The collodion positive, or ambrotype, is a positive photograph on glass. It first appeared in about 1853 and by the 1860s the process had largely disappeared from high street studios, being replaced by the tintype. It remained popular with itinerant op...en-air photographers until the 1880s, because portraits could be made in a few minutes while sitters waited.The collodion positive process, which was based on the collodion negative process, reversed a negative image by bleaching the silver salts. The dark areas which would normally form the highlights in a printed image turned pale, and the clear areas which would form the shadows in the print appeared dark. When presented against a black background, normally black varnish or cloth, the dark areas of the original negative, appeared as highlights and the black backing, visible through the clear areas of the plate that originally formed the highlights, appeared as shadows.
Size:8 x 9.5 cm in case (6th plate).
Condition:Image has degraded around edges. Bottom section of case coming loose with damaged corner.
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