Apr. 12—While a smartphone picture can be snapped by just about anyone in a matter of seconds, Rudy Salgado of River City Photography will be offering up a snapshot of the past with his tintype ...

Tintypes were the first form of photography to really allow the public to get a quick, inexpensive, and durable portrait. Debuting in the 1850s, they peaked during the Civil War, a popular method for ...

Arts Blast from the past: Evoke Tintype in Revere keeps Civil War-era photography technique alive Armed with a 1940s' Deardorff camera, Maureen Feeley and Dave Caramello are able to capture the magic ...

The mystery grows as we gaze at an old metal tintype portrait that’s well over 100 years old. Who was this person and what heartaches and loss did they endue to leave us with such a forlorn expression ...

OLDEST FORMS OF PHOTOGRAPHY. THE DAGUERREOTYPE WAS THE FIRST COMMERCIALLY SUCCESSFUL PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESS, BUT SHORTLY AFTER ITS POPULARITY PEAKED IN THE 1840S, A MORE AFFORDABLE VERSION CAME ALONG, ...

The art of photography didn’t start with cellphones or other digital means. That may be obvious for some, but to others who grew up in the digital age, an analog camera is as useless as a rotary phone ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s note: An untold number of unheralded artists live in Colorado, those creators who can’t (or don’t want to) get into galleries and rely on word of ...

TANGIBLE RESULTS: Sara Mulvey is one of a small number of Asheville-area photographers who specialize in tintype. Photo by Meghan McIver There is a special thrill reserved for flipping through old ...

Welcoming Jim Hair into his studio, tintype photographer Noyel Gallimore is giddy. Hair, a consistent force in the Portland photography scene since the ′70s, is a professional in every sense of the ...

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Old-timey photography lives on through the lenses of Santa Rosa’s Jeremiah Flynn. Owner of Jeremiah’s Photo Corner and self-taught tintype photographer who has taken 1,500 tintypes in the past six ...