collodion
noun
col·lo·di·on
kə-ˈlō-dē-ən 
: a viscous solution of pyroxylin used especially as a coating for wounds or for photographic films
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Great Britain at the advent of the photographic medium and using a collodion wet plate process, Cameron took long exposure portraits of people and children.
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Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
In other cases, the information is real: the annotation for the photograph Plate Box serves to explain the complex collodion process that Berkman employs to produce his images with legitimate material on the evolution of portrait photography in nineteenth-century New York.
—J. Hoberman, The New York Review of Books, 10 Sep. 2020
This image was taken at the University of Tennessee Forensic Anthropology Facility, using a 19th-century photographic process known as wet-collodion printing.
—Rebecca Horne, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2010
Hyatt mixed this collodion with camphor (derived from the camphor tree) and found that the product was strong yet moldable.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 27 Oct. 2022
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Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
In other cases, the information is real: the annotation for the photograph Plate Box serves to explain the complex collodion process that Berkman employs to produce his images with legitimate material on the evolution of portrait photography in nineteenth-century New York.
—J. Hoberman, The New York Review of Books, 10 Sep. 2020
This image was taken at the University of Tennessee Forensic Anthropology Facility, using a 19th-century photographic process known as wet-collodion printing.
—Rebecca Horne, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2010
Hyatt mixed this collodion with camphor (derived from the camphor tree) and found that the product was strong yet moldable.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 27 Oct. 2022
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collodion
noun
col·lo·di·on
kə-ˈlōd-ē-ən
: a viscous solution of pyroxylin used especially as a coating for wounds or for photographic films
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