Showing posts with label daguerreotype. Show all posts
Showing posts with label daguerreotype. Show all posts
October 29, 2025
April 16, 2020
Edgar Allen Poe articles/mentions
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Basil Rathbone ~ The Masque of the Red Death & COVID-19
mentions:
Joan Baez ~ Joan
Peter Gabriel ~ Deutsches Album
The Hour Glass ~ The Power of Love
Edgar Allan Poe - June 1849
Daguerreotype
photographer unknown
June 16, 2019
2019 East Bay Open Studios update ~ Meister & Sampson
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An amazing and wonderful thing happened at the Jingletown East Bay Open Studios event (link below) this year. Photographer Jenny Sampson (link below) and jewelry designer Dorie Meister (link below) were showing at the Gray Loft Gallery (link below) and they joined talents to create quietly stunning bracelets.
Sampson creates photographs using the wet plate collodion process. Her photo images are mounted on a metal surface; sometimes the image is wrong, for one reason or another, and the print is discarded. Meister says, "I was using Jenny’s “rejects” to cut up into earrings, the cuff
bracelets are different. In this case, Jenny is creating a still life tintype and then we are slicing that
piece of art into unique abstractions, then I shape and form them into
cuffs."
They were a BIG hit at the open studios . . .
They were a BIG hit at the open studios . . .
The wet plate collodion process is metal, copper, aluminum, etc., which is coated with a photographic medium that is sensitized, exposed and
developed within the span of about fifteen minutes, necessitating a
portable darkroom
for use in the field to create the photographic image. Collodion is normally used in its wet form for portraiture, the 'dry' form for landscapes. This was the usual portraiture process of most professional photographers of
the 19th century. Sometimes they were referred to as a tintype. The collodion process is said to have been invented in 1851, almost simultaneously, by Frederick Scott Archer and Gustave Le Gray and replaced the daguerreotype, an earlier photographic process.
All of this illustrates that you just never know what you'll come across at one of the Jingletown Art events (link below).
Viewfinder links:
Styrous® ~ Sunday, June 16, 2019
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