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This is especially evident as the show builds from format to format—including tintypes, ambrotypes, paper prints, and stereographs, each an improvement on the last where the maker’s control was concerned.—Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 24 May 2025 Lifestyle Hauntingly beautiful tintype photos memorialize what was lost in Altadena
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Tell us about your outfit.—Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2025 To a visitor’s eye, the light switch is nowhere to be found—that is, until a tintype photograph is plucked from a ledge near the front door to reveal a white plastic switch plate.—Shoko Wanger, Architectural Digest, 1 May 2025 Around since the 1850s, tintype photography captures a still image on a thin metal plate coated with dark lacquer or enamel.—Marah Eakin, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tintype
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