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 Many ambrotypes were made by unknown photographers, such as this American example of a Union soldier with his family, circa 1863-65. Because of their fragility ambrotypes were held in folding cases much like those used for daguerreotypes |
The ambrotype (from — “immortal”, and — “impression”) or amphitype is a photograph that creates a positive image on a sheet of glass using the wet plate collodion process. In the United States, ambrotypes first came into use in the early 1850s. The wet plate collodion process was invented just a few years before that by Frederick Scott Archer, but ambrotypes used the plate image as a positive, instead of a negative. In 1854, James Ambrose Cutting of Boston took out several patents relating to the process and may be responsible for coining the term "ambrotype".
- Related: Calotype, Tintype, Collodion process
| The wetplate collodion process, used to make ambro... The wetplate collodion process, used to make ambrotypes www.alternativephotography.com/process_wetplate.html - Web |
| The Getty Museum: The Wet Collodion Process The Getty Museum: The Wet Collodion Process www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/videoDetails?cat=2&segid=1726 - Web |
| Step by Step Wet Plate Photography Step by Step Wet Plate Photography www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eastman/sfeature/wetplate_step1.html - Web |
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